Structural phase transition, strength, and texture in vanadium at high pressure under nonhydrostatic compression

Xiong Lun^{1, 2, 3, †}, Liu Jing³

(color online) (a) Selected diffraction patterns of V under nonhydrostatic compression taken at ψ = 54.7°. (b) The cubic (110) diffraction peak splits into rhombohedral (−110) and (100) peaks during the transition from the bcc to rhombohedral structure at 27 GPa.