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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 63, Issue 22, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.63.224522
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We have determined the structural properties of the superconducting compound MgB2 as a function of temperature from 11 to 297 K and as a function of hydrostatic pressure up to 0.62 GPa using neutron powder diffraction. This compound, when compared to other diborides with the same structure, is characterized by unusually large anisotropies of both the thermal expansion and compressibility, with the c-axis responses being substantially larger. We speculate that the comparatively weaker metal-boron bonding in MgB2 manifested by these lattice responses, is important for establishing the structural features that give rise to high-T-c superconductivity in this structure type.
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