Nature Communications (Feb 2016)

Structural complexity of simple Fe2O3 at high pressures and temperatures

  • E. Bykova,
  • L. Dubrovinsky,
  • N. Dubrovinskaia,
  • M. Bykov,
  • C. McCammon,
  • S. V. Ovsyannikov,
  • H. -P. Liermann,
  • I. Kupenko,
  • A. I. Chumakov,
  • R. Rüffer,
  • M. Hanfland,
  • V. Prakapenka

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10661
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Fe2O3is known to undergo a series of structural, electronic and magnetic transformations at high pressures and temperatures but these are poorly understood due to a lack of structural data. Here, the authors perform experiments to elucidate the transformations and relationships between them.