Structural stability of ultra-high temperature refractory material MoSi2 and Mo5Si3 under high pressure

Structural stability of ultra-high temperature refractory material MoSi₂ and Mo₅Si₃ under high pressure

Liang Hao¹, Peng Fang^{1, †}, Fan Cong¹, Zhang Qiang¹, Liu Jing², Guan Shi-Xue¹

(color online) Plots of normalized unit cell volume versus pressure for MoSi₂ (solid red circle) and Mo₅Si₃ (solid black square). The black and red solid lines represent the best fits of Birch–Murnaghan EOS.