title: Structural investigation of LaAlO3 up to 63 GPa.
abstract: We report a high-pressure synchrotron x-ray diffraction on a LaAlO(3) single crystal. The transition from rhombohedral to cubic at 14.8 GPa is confirmed by the loss of the superstructure reflections, whose intensity shows a linear pressure dependence, characteristic of a second-order transition. The crystal remains cubic up to 63 GPa, the highest pressure reached, which provides a confirmation over a very large pressure range of the general rules for the evolution of distortions of perovskites under pressure. We report the parameters of the Birch-Murnaghan equations of state in the low- and high-pressure phases and discuss the evolution of the bulk modulus.
authors: Laboratoire des Matériaux et du Génie Physique, CNRS, Grenoble INP, MINATEC, 3 parvis Louis Néel, 38016 Grenoble, France. mael.guennou@supaero.org
authors: Mael
authors: M
authors: Guennou
authors: Pierre
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authors: Bouvier
authors: Gaston
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authors: Garbarino
authors: Jens
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authors: Kreisel