title: The high-pressure form of cadmium vanadate, CdV(2)O(6).
abstract: The crystal structure of a new high-pressure modification of cadmium divanadium hexaoxide, CdV(2)O(6), was refined from X-ray single-crystal data. It contains zigzag chains of edge-sharing VO(6) octahedra. Octahedra in adjacent chains share corners and form corrugated layers. Octahedrally coordinated Cd atoms, which lie on twofold axes, are situated between the layers. The columbite-like structure results in a strong distortion of the CdO(6) octahedra which may be stabilized only at high pressure.
authors.affiliation: National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan.
authors.forename: Alexei A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Belik
authors.forename: Andrei V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Mironov
authors.forename: Roman V
authors.initials: RV
authors.lastname: Shpanchenko
authors.forename: Eiji
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Takayama-Muromachi