%0 Journal Article
%T A high-temperature Raman scattering study of the phase transitions in GaPO4 and in the AlPO4-GaPO4 system
%+ Institut Charles Gerhardt Montpellier - Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux de Montpellier (ICGM ICMMM)
%+ Laboratoire des colloïdes, verres et nanomatériaux (LCVN)
%A Angot, E.
%A Le Parc, Rozenn
%A Levelut, Claire
%A Beaurain, Marion
%A Armand, Pascale
%A Cambon, Olivier
%A Haines, Julien
%< avec comité de lecture
%@ 0953-8984
%J Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
%I IOP Publishing
%V 18
%P 4315-4327
%8 2006-04-13
%D 2006
%R 10.1088/0953-8984/18/17/018
%K piezoelectric material
%K quartz
%K cristobalite
%Z Chemical Sciences/Material chemistryJournal articles
%X Al1-xGaxPO4 solid solutions (x = 0.2, 0.3, 0.38, 0.7) and the pure AlPO4 (x = 0) and GaPO4 (x = 1) end members with the α-quartz-type structure were studied by Raman scattering. An investigation as a function of composition enabled the various modes to be assigned, in particular coupled and decoupled vibrations. The tetrahedral tilting modes, which have been linked to high-temperature phase transitions to β-quartz-type forms, were found to be decoupled. In addition, it is shown that Raman spectroscopy is a powerful technique for determining the gallium content of these solid solutions. Single crystals with x = 0.2, 0.38, and 1.0 (GaPO4) were investigated at high temperature. The composition Al0.8Ga0.2PO4 was found to exhibit sequential transitions upon heating to the β-quartz and β-cristobalite forms at close to 993 K and 1073 K, respectively. Direct α-quartz–β-cristobalite transitions were observed for the two other compositions at close to 1083 K and 1253 K, respectively, upon heating. The spectra of the β-quartz and β-cristobalite forms indicate the presence of significant disorder. Back transformation to the α-quartz-type form occurred readily with a hysteresis of less than 100 K for the composition x = 0.38 and for pure GaPO4. Rapid cooling was necessary to obtain the metastable α-cristobalite form. In contrast, for Al0.80Ga0.20PO4, the α-cristobalite form was obtained even upon slow cooling.
%G English
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%U https://hal.science/hal-00182371
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