title: Phonon behavior of CaSnO3 perovskite under pressure.
abstract: Raman scattering and x-ray diffraction studies of CaSnO(3) perovskite were performed under high-pressure conditions. This high-pressure study was motivated by a recent theoretical study predicting a phase transition in CaSnO(3) from GdFeO(3)-type perovskite to CaIrO(3)-type structure occurred at 12 GPa. Despite no obvious structure change up to a pressure of 26 GPa based on the x-ray diffraction data, high pressure Raman measurements revealed that some Raman modes disappeared upon compression; either merging into neighboring bands or vanishing. The signals for these Raman peaks were recovered during decompression. The measured pressure derivative of Raman shift (∂ν∕∂P) of CaSnO(3) ranged from ~1.29 to ~4.35, up to 20 GPa. Due to the lack of lattice dynamic study for CaSnO(3) perovskite, the mode symmetry for CaSnO(3) was tentatively assigned based on the empirical relation among Ca-bearing perovskites. The pressure derivative of the Raman shifts was found to be related to their mode vibrations: modes related to Ca and O shifts had a strong pressure dependence compared with those associated with oxygen octahedral rotation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Earth Sciences, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan. jkung@mail.ncku.edu.tw
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kung
authors.forename: Yi-Ji
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Chih-Ming
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Lin