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High-pressure x-ray diffraction study of Ta[sub 4]AlC[sub 3]

✍ Scribed by Manoun, Bouchaib; Saxena, S. K.; El-Raghy, T.; Barsoum, M. W.


Book ID
121727462
Publisher
American Institute of Physics
Year
2006
Tongue
English
Weight
555 KB
Volume
88
Category
Article
ISSN
0003-6951

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✦ Synopsis


Using a synchrotron radiation source and a diamond anvil cell, we measured the pressure dependence of the lattice parameters of a recently discovered phase, Ta4AlC3. This phase adopts a hexagonal structure with the space group P63βˆ•mmc; at room conditions, the a and c parameters are 3.087(5) and 23.70(4)Γ…, respectively. Up to a pressure of 47GPa, no phase transformations were observed. Like Ta2AlC, but unlike many related phases such as Ti4AlN3, Ti3SiC2, Ti3GeC2, and Zr2InC, the compressibility of Ta4AlC3 along the c and a axes are almost identical. The bulk modulus of Ta4AlC3, 261Β±2GPa, is β‰ˆ4% greater than that of Ta2AlC. Both, however, are β‰ˆ37% lower than the 345Β±9GPa of TaC.


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