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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER
Volume 23, Issue 31, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/23/31/315701
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- Department of Energy (DOE)-National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) [DE-FG52-10NA29660]
- NASA-Alabama Space Grant Consortium [NNX10AJ80H]
- Department of Education [P200A090143]
- NASA [NNX10AJ80H, 130940] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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High pressure x-ray diffraction studies have been performed on the heavy rare earth metal erbium (Er) in a diamond anvil cell at room temperature to a pressure of 151 GPa and Er has been compressed to 40% of its initial volume. The rare earth crystal structure sequence hcp -> Sm type -> dhcp -> distorted fcc (hcp: hexagonal close packed; fcc: face centered cubic; dhcp: double hcp) is observed in Er below 58 GPa. We have carried out Rietveld refinement of crystal structures in the pressure range between 58 GPa and 151 GPa. We have examined various crystal structures that have been proposed for the distorted fcc (dfcc) phase and the post-dfcc phase in rare earth metals. We find that the hexagonal hR24 structure is the best fit between 58 and 118 GPa. Above 118 GPa, a structural transformation from hR24 phase to a monoclinic C2/m phase is observed with a volume change of -1.9%. We have also established a clear trend for the pressure at which a post-dfcc phase is formed in rare earth metals and show that there is a monotonic increase in this pressure with the filling of 4f shell.
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