AIP Advances (Jun 2016)

High pressure antiferrodistortive phase transition in mixed crystals of EuTiO3 and SrTiO3

  • Paraskevas Parisiades,
  • Francesco Saltarelli,
  • Efthymios Liarokapis,
  • Jürgen Köhler,
  • Annette Bussmann-Holder

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4954819
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 6
pp. 065019 – 065019-7

Abstract

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We report a detailed high pressure study on Eu1−xSrxTiO3 polycrystalline samples using synchrotron x-ray diffraction. We have observed a second-order antiferrodistortive phase transition for all doping levels which corresponds to the transition that has been previously explored as a function of temperature. The analysis of the compression mechanism by calculating the lattice parameters, spontaneous strains and tilt angles of the TiO6 octahedra leads to a high pressure phase diagram for Eu1−xSrxTiO3.