First- and second-order phase transitions in ternary europium phosphides with ThCr2Si2-type structure

Autor: Manfred Reehuis, Albrecht Mewis, A. Wurth, W. Schlabitz, C. Huhnt
Rok vydání: 1998
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Zdroj: Physica B: Condensed Matter. 252:44-54
ISSN: 0921-4526
Popis: The ThCr2Si2- type compounds EuFe2P2 and EuRu2P2 exhibit as a function of pressure continuous phase transitions which are accompanied by extremely strong changes of the lattice parameters and particularly of the P–P distance dP−P along the tetragonal c-axis. In the isostructural integralvalent LaT2P2 compounds similar phase transitions of second (T=Fe) and first order (T=Co) occur as a function of pressure indicating that the T element essentially determines the nature of the phase transition. The different types of phase transitions are explained phenomenologically.
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