Size-dependent phase transition of Er2O3 under high pressure

Ren, Xiangting; Yan, Xiaozhi; Yu, Zhenhai; Li, Wentao; Yang, Ke; Wang, Xiaoli; Liu, Yuzi; Wang, Lin

doi:10.1063/1.5017815

Title: Size-dependent phase transition of Er₂O₃ under high pressure

Journal Article · 02 April 2018 · Applied Physics Letters

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5017815 · OSTI ID:1461492

Ren, Xiangting ^[1]; Yan, Xiaozhi ^[1];

^[1]; Li, Wentao ^[2]; Yang, Ke ^[3]; Wang, Xiaoli ^[4]; Liu, Yuzi ^[5]; Wang, Lin ^[1]

Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR), Shanghai (China)
Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR), Shanghai (China); Sichuan Univ., Chengdu (China)
Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai (China). Shanghai Inst. of Applied Physics, Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF)
Linyi Univ. (China)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Center for Nanoscale Materials

In this work, The size effect on the structural and optical properties of cubic Er₂O₃ was investigated under pressure by in-situ angular dispersive synchrotron x-ray diffraction (AD-XRD), Raman scattering, photoluminescence (PL), and impedance spectroscopy. Contrary to the phase transition sequence of cubic→monoclinic→hexagonal in bulk Er₂O₃, a transformation from cubic directly to hexagonal was observed in Er₂O₃ nanoparticals. Compared with bulk Er₂O₃, nano-Er₂O₃ showed an obvious elevation of phase transition pressure and larger bulk module. A third-order Birch-Murnaghan fitting yields zero pressure bulk moduli (B₀) of 181(5), and 226(4) GPa and their pressure derivatives (B'₀) of 4.0(7), 1.9(5) for the cubic and hexagonal phases, respectively. The multiple PL lines of ⁴S_3/2→⁴I_15/2 originating from the cubic phase are also altered due to phase transformation. The impedance spectroscopy indicated that the nano-Er₂O₃ is an insulator up to 30 GPa. These findings give a fresh understanding of size influence on the phase transition sequences and sheds light on the applications of nano-Er₂O₃.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Scientific User Facilities Division; National Science Associated Funding; Science Challenging Program; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1461492

Journal Information:: Applied Physics Letters, Journal Name: Applied Physics Letters Journal Issue: 14 Vol. 112; ISSN 0003-6951

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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