Structural phase transformations and new intermediate phases of MgF2 under high pressures applied via conjugate gradient methods
   
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Prof. Dr. Hülya ÖZTÜRK Kırşehir Ahi Evran Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Cemile Kürkçü
Kırşehir Ahi Evran Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Prof. Dr. Cihan KÜRKÇÜ Kırşehir Ahi Evran Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Makale Türü Özgün Makale (SSCI, AHCI, SCI, SCI-Exp dergilerinde yayınlanan tam makale)
Dergi Adı Journal of Alloys and Compounds
Dergi ISSN 0925-8388 Wos Dergi Scopus Dergi
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler SCI
Makale Dili İngilizce Basım Tarihi 10-2014
Cilt / Sayı / Sayfa 609 / 1 / 185–191 DOI 10.1016/j.jallcom.2014.04.152
Makale Linki http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0925838814009827
Özet
An ab initio constant pressure technique is performed in order to study the structural behavior of MgF2 under the hydrostatic pressure up to 700 GPa. Two high-pressure phases of MgF2 are successfully observed through constant pressure simulations. MgF2 undergoes a phase transformation from the rutile-type structure to the cubic-fluorite-type structure with space group Fm3̄m at 280 GPa. Another phase transformation from the cubic-fluorite-type structure to the cotunnite-type structure with space group Pnma occurs at 500 GPa. The first transformation proceeds via three intermediate phases with space groups Pnnm, Immm and R3̄m. We also investigate the stability of these phases from the total energy and enthalpy computations. According to these investigations, the phase transformations should occur from the rutile-type structure to the cubic-fluorite-type structure around 20 GPa and from the cubic-fluorite-type structure to the cotunnite-type structure around 45 GPa. © 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Intermediate phase | Magnesium fluoride | Molecular dynamics | Phase transformation