Phase Transitons and Phonon-Liquid-Electron Crystal Behaviour in Argyrodites

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We wish to collect powder neutron diffraction as a function of temperature on four samples of argyrodites, A8GeQ6 (A = Cu, Ag; Q = S, Se), to investigate structural phase transitions, cation ordering and cation mobility. The structure at room temperature consists of tetrahedral GeQ4 units which link AQ4 units into an open structure that contains additional 3-coordinate A cations. Structural transitions are reported to occur in the temperature range 320 < T/K < 500. We seek to investigate the onset of copper (silver) ion mobility at the phase transition and its evolution with temperature. We believe these materials to be examples of phonon-liquid-electron-crystals, which emerging evidence suggests is linked to exceptionally low thermal conductivity and thus high thermoelectric performance.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.83553073
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/83553073
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Creator Professor Anthony Powell; Dr Paz Vaqueiro-Rodriguez; Dr Steve Hull; Mr Sebastian Long; Dr Ivan da Silva Gonzalez
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-11-17T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-11-20T08:00:00Z