Neutron powder diffraction and high-pressure synchrotron x-ray diffraction study of tantalum nitrides<xref rid="cpb_27_2_026201_fn1" ref-type="fn">*</xref> <fn id="cpb_27_2_026201_fn1"> <label>*</label> <p>Project supported by the Research Foundation of Key Laboratory of Neutron Physics (Grant No. 2015BB03), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11774247), the Science Foundation for Excellent Youth Scholars of Sichuan University (Grant No. 2015SCU04A04), and the Joint Usage/Research Center PRIUS (Ehime University, Japan) and Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. 2017-BEPC-PT-000568).</p> </fn>

Neutron powder diffraction and high-pressure synchrotron x-ray diffraction study of tantalum nitrides* *

Project supported by the Research Foundation of Key Laboratory of Neutron Physics (Grant No. 2015BB03), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11774247), the Science Foundation for Excellent Youth Scholars of Sichuan University (Grant No. 2015SCU04A04), and the Joint Usage/Research Center PRIUS (Ehime University, Japan) and Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. 2017-BEPC-PT-000568).

Feng Lei-hao¹, Hu Qi-wei¹, Lei Li^{1, †}, Fang Lei-ming², Qi Lei¹, Zhang Lei-lei¹, Pu Mei-fang¹, Kou Zi-li¹, Peng Fang¹, Chen Xi-ping², Xia Yuan-hua², Kojima Yohei³, Ohfuji Hiroaki³, He Duan-wei¹, Chen Bo², Irifune Tetsuo³

(color online) (a) Selected x-ray diffraction patterns of tantalum nitrides at different pressure and the pattern collected on pressure release. (b) Rietveld refinement results of tantalum nitrides at 0.4 GPa.