High-pressure x-ray diffraction studies on HgTe and HgS to 20 GPa

Werner, A. ; Hochheimer, H. ; Strössner, K. ; Jayaraman, A. (1983) High-pressure x-ray diffraction studies on HgTe and HgS to 20 GPa Physical Review B, 28 (6). pp. 3330-3334. ISSN 0163-1829

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Official URL: http://prb.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v28/i6/p3330_1

Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.28.3330

Abstract

HgTe and HgS have been investigated with the use of the high-pressure x-ray diffraction technique to 20 GPa. HgTe undergoes three pressure-induced phase transitions in the (0-20)-GPa range, from zinc blende to cinnabar to rocksalt to β-Sn, at 1.4, 8, and 12 GPa, respectively. HgS does not show any evidence for a transition from the cinnabar structure up to 20 GPa, either in high-pressure x-ray diffraction or in high-pressure Raman studies. The above transition sequence agrees with the pressure-induced sequence for CdTe except for the intrusion of the cinnabar structure. Evaluation of the bulk modulus B0 and B0′ from high-pressure x-ray data reveals that the cinnabar phases of HgTe and HgS are very compressible; B0 and B0′ are 19.4±0.5 GPa and 11.1 for HgS, and 16.0±0.5 GPa and 7.3 for HgTe. Bulk moduli, volume changes for transitions, and lattice parameters of the high-pressure phases have all been determined from the x-ray data. The observed transition sequence for HgTe appears to be in agreement with the predictions of recent pseudopotential total-energy calculations for phase stability in III-V and II-VI compounds under pressure.

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