Dynamical disorder or incipient nano-ferroic distortions in CaSnO3 perovskite?

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It has always been assumed that CaSnO3 perovskite remains orthorhombic (Pbnm) as a function of temperature up to its melting point, and is rather unremarkable in many ways. However, we have recently found evidence for short range order-disorder from Raman spectroscopy, with a strong first order shift in Raman mode frequencies accompanied by a doubling of the widths of the same Raman lines, on heating through around 430 K. The "transition" is reversible, appearing at around 360 K on cooling. High-temperature X-ray diffraction shows no major discernible transformation at these temperatures, but calorimetry indicates a very small excess heat capacity at similar temperatures. We wish to test the hypothesis that that this is due dynamical disorder, possible short-range in character, and wish to undertake a more precise and definitive set of neutron powder diffraction data as a function of T.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24067233
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24067233
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Creator Professor Simon Redfern; Dr Matthew Tucker; Professor Martin Dove
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2012
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2009-03-20T12:09:53Z
Temporal Coverage End 2009-05-29T08:03:39Z