title: The structure of liquid SnTe under pressure.
abstract: We investigated the structure of liquid SnTe at high pressures up to 8.2 GPa by energy-dispersive x-ray diffraction. On melting at low pressures, the crystalline B1 structure changed into not B1-like but distorted-B1-like local structure. We also found that the structure changes at around 1.6-3.3 GPa. At high pressures, the bond angle and coordination number approached those for B2-based structure, but still showed clear deviations from B2-like local structure.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Hiyoshi 3-14-1, Yokohama, 223-8522, Japan.
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hinzmann
authors.forename: Ayano
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chiba
authors.forename: Kazuhiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tsuji