Compression behavior and phase transition of β-Si3N4 under high pressure

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/27/5/056101

Abstract

The compressibility and pressure-induced phase transition of β-Si₃N₄ were investigated by using an angle dispersive x-ray diffraction technique in a diamond anvil cell at room temperature. Rietveld refinements of the x-ray powder diffraction data verified that the hexagonal structure (with space group P63/m, Z=2 formulas per unit cell) β-Si₃N₄ remained stable under high pressure up to 37 GPa. Upon increasing pressure, β-Si₃N₄ transformed to δ-Si₃N₄ at about 41 GPa. The initial β-Si₃N₄ was recovered as the pressure was released to ambient pressure, implying that the observed pressure-induced phase transformation was reversible. The pressure-volume data of β-Si₃N₄ was fitted by the third-order Birch-Murnaghan equation of state, which yielded a bulk modulus K₀=273(2) GPa with its pressure derivative K'₀=4 (fixed) and K₀=278(2) GPa with K'₀=5. Furthermore, the compressibility of the unit cell axes (a and c-axes) for the β-Si₃N₄ demonstrated an anisotropic property with increasing pressure.

Keywords: phase transition bulk modulus β-Si₃N₄ high pressure in situ x-ray diffraction

Received: 25 November 2017
Revised: 02 February 2018
Published: 05 May 2018

PACS:	61.05.cp	(X-ray diffraction)
	31.15.ae	(Electronic structure and bonding characteristics)
	81.05.Je	(Ceramics and refractories (including borides, carbides, hydrides, nitrides, oxides, and silicides))
	64.70.K-

Corresponding Authors: Zi-li Kou
E-mail: kouzili@scu.edu.cn

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Hong-xia Gong(龚红霞), Zi-li Kou(寇自力), Cong Fan(樊聪), Hao Liang(梁浩), Qi-ming Wang(王齐明), Lei-lei Zhang(张雷雷), Fang Peng(彭放), Ming Yang(杨鸣), Xiao-lin Ni(倪小林), Jing Liu(刘景) Compression behavior and phase transition of β-Si₃N₄ under high pressure 2018 Chin. Phys. B 27 056101

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