Observation of a wurtzite form of gallium arsenide.
After a pressure decrease to ambient, the high-pressure SC16 phase of GaAs is found to transform to the hexagonal wurtzite structure. This has been suggested for GaAs in calculations but never previously observed experimentally. Wurtzite-GaAs is found to be stable at ambient pressures at temperatures up to 473 K, with a structure that is only slightly distorted from ideal. On recompression, the ratio is constant with pressure and wurtzite-GaAs transforms to the orthorhombic phase at 18.7(9) GPa.
McMahon
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SUPA, School of Physics and Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions, The University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, United Kingdom.
Nelmes
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