Structural behaviour of β-Cu2−δSe (δ = 0, 0.15, 0.25) in dependence on temperature studied by synchrotron powder diffraction
Structural behaviour of β-Cu2−δSe (δ = 0, 0.15, 0.25) in dependence on temperature studied by synchrotron powder diffraction
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DOI:
10.1016/j.jallcom.2005.10.079
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发表时间:
2006-09
影响因子:
6.2
通讯作者:
A. Skomorokhov;D. Trots;M. Knapp;N. N. Bickulova-N.;H. Fuess,
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作者:
A. Skomorokhov;D. Trots;M. Knapp;N. N. Bickulova-N.;H. Fuess,
Superionic β-copper selenide, β-Cu2−δSe (δ=0, 0.15, 0.25), has been studied by synchrotron powder diffraction and calorimetric methods in the range 293K<T<823K. Cu1.75Se exists in the superionic phase at room temperature and remains stable in air up to 600K. Cu1.85Se exists at room temperature as a mixture of β and α phases, β+α→β phase transition is not detected in DCS experiment, however, pure β-phase was observed in diffraction pattern of Cu1.85Se at 353K; Cu1.85Se remains stable in air up to 600K. A copper release process starts in Cu2Se at a temperature below the superionic–non-superionic phase transition. At T>543K the composition is close to Cu1.95Se and remains stable up to 573K. Time average structure of β-Cu2−δSe has been analysed in the whole temperature range of existence in air. A face centred cubic unit cell (space group Fm3¯m) is formed by the selenium anions with copper cations distributed over tetrahedral 8(c) and 32(f) (x, x, x) split positions within the octahedral voids (1/3<x<1/2). The copper occupancy of the 32(f) sites increases with temperature with a simultaneous decrease in the 8(c) sites. Besides, the copper occupancy of the 32(f) lattice site also increases with the total copper content 2−δ. A diffusion pathway of mobile Cu ions along the tetrahedral sites, in “skewed” 〈100〉 directions through the peripheries of octahedral cavities is proposed.