High-pressure structural stability of the ductile intermetallic compound, ErCu

S. Meenakshi

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Abstract

High-pressure angle dispersive X-ray diffraction measurements up to 23·6 GPa have been carried out on the ductile intermetallic compound, ErCu. Our measurements show that the ambient CsCl structure (SG: Pm-3m) is stable up to the highest pressure of the present measurements. A second-order Birch-Murnaghan equation of state fit to the pressure, volume data yielded a bulk modulus of 67·6 GPa with the pressure derivative of bulk modulus fixed at 4.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1343-1345
Number of pages3
JournalBulletin of Materials Science
Volume37
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Oct 2014
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • High pressure
  • Intermetallics
  • Synchrotron radiation
  • X-ray diffraction

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Materials Science
  • Mechanics of Materials

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