A theoretical study of the structural, elastic, and mechanical properties of B19 TiAl intermetallic compound with orthorhombic structure has been carried out by using ab initio density functional theory calculations based on the projector augmented wave and the generalized gradient approximation. The optimized structure parameters are found to be in agreement with the available experimental dat...

ReO2 presents two crystalline variants, with monoclinic and orthorhombic structures. The former is metastable and irreversibly transforms to an orthorhombic structure above 460oC. The structure of the latter was determined from studies on monocrystalline samples, whereas for the monoclinic variant there are no single crystals available so far. It was found only one monoclinic variant and the st...

We investigated the magnetic structure of an orthorhombic YMnO(3) thin film by resonant soft x-ray and hard x-ray diffraction. We observed a temperature-dependent incommensurate magnetic reflection below 45 K and a commensurate lattice-distortion reflection below 35 K. These results demonstrate that the ground state is composed of coexisting E-type and cycloidal states. Their different ordering...

Abstract, Magnetoresistance (MR) in bulk samples of LaMnO 3 has been investigated by varying the Mn 4+ content from 10 to 33 per cent by chemical means, without aliovalent doping. With the increase in Mn 4 + content, the structure of LaMnO 3 changes first from orthorhombic to rhombohedral and then to cubic and the material becomes increasingly ferromagnetic, exhibiting a resistivity maximum aki...

An in-situ Raman spectroscopic study was conducted to explore the pressure induced phase transformation of spinel-type ferrite ZnFe2O4. Results indicate that ferrite ZnFe2O4 initially transforms to an orthorhombic structure phase (CaFe2O4polymorph) at a pressure of 24.6 GPa. Such a phase transformation is complete at 34.2 GPa, and continuously remains stable to the peak pressure of 61.9 GPa. Th...

Synchrotron infrared spectroscopy on sodium shows a transition from a high reflectivity, nearly free-electron metal to a low-reflectivity, poor metal in an orthorhombic phase at 118 GPa. Optical spectra calculated within density functional theory (DFT) agree with the experimental measurements and predict a gap opening in the orthorhombic phase at compression beyond its stability field, a state ...

Abstract. A model Hamiltonian representing the Cu spins in La2CuO4 in its lowtemperature body-centred orthorhombic phase, that includes both spin-orbit generated Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions and interplanar exchange, is examined within the RPA utilizing a Tyablikov decoupling of various high-order Green’s functions. The magnetic susceptibility is evaluated as a function of temperature and...

Thermal and structural austenite to martensite reversible transition was studied in melt spun ribbons of Ni50Mn40Sn5Co5, Ni50Mn37.5Sn7.5Co5 and Ni50Mn35Sn10Co5 (at. %) alloys. Analysis of X-ray diffraction patterns confirms that all alloys have martensitic structure at room temperature: four layered orthorhombic 4O for Ni50Mn40Sn5Co5, four layered orthorhombic 4O and seven-layered monoclinic 14...