Temperature variation of Debye-Waller factor of KNO3

Somashekar, R.; Prahllad, U. D.; Madhava, M. S.

doi:10.1007/bf01729147

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“…His paper suffered the fate of many other late 19th century studies of crystal optics; it was overshadowed by the revelations of X-ray diffraction studies (Kahr & McBride, 1992). Recent observers treated the birefringence in the mixed crystals as a nuisance; isotropy, after all, can be achieved by annealing (Chandrasekhar & Madhava, 1969;Niedermaier & Schlenk, 1972;Chandrasekaran & Mohanlal, 1976;Sivaramakrishnan & Arunkumar, 1976;Somashekar, Prahllad & Madhava, 1987). Many of these researchers were interested in the optical rotatory power of mixed crystals, a quantity which is most easily measured in an isotropic medium (Ramachandran & Ramaseshan, 1952;Jerrard, 1954).…”

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Effect of Habit Modification on Optical and X-ray Structures of Sodium Halate Mixed Crystals: The Etiology of Anomalous Double Refraction

Crundwell¹,

Gopalan²,

Bakulin³

et al. 1997

Acta Crystallogr Sect B

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Structures of mixed crystals of the isomorphous salts NaClO3 and NaBrO3 (sodium chlorate and sodium bromate, respectively) were reinvestigated by X-ray diffraction. Contrary to previous reports, NaCl x Br1−x O3 is not cubic. Data from adjacent {100} growth sectors of crystals of varying composition were refined in the triclinic space group P1; halate ions occupy nominally symmetry-related sites nonstatistically. Optical measurements showed that six asymmetric sectors in cubes are disposed to give an object with approximate tetrahedral point symmetry. We address forgotten anomalies, first observed almost 150 years ago, which could have been a sufficient basis for earlier structural reinvestigations. The mixed-crystal structure speaks to the general non-applicability of the Law of Isomorphism to solid solutions. A link between optical anisotropy and nonstatistical guest site occupancy was achieved by annealing crystals between 523 and 533 K. Na2S2O3 and Na2S2O6 were used as habit-modifying impurities to produce NaCl x Brl−x O3 crystals with {111} and {\overline 1\overline 1\overline 1} habits, respectively. Diffraction data from {111} and {\overline 1\overline 1\overline 1} growth sectors were refined in the trigonal space group R3. In each case the pyramidal halate ion that was located on the special position was depleted in BrO3 −. Conoscopic optical investigations nevertheless showed that the crystals are biaxial with a small 2V (10–15°), in marked contrast to the 90° angle in {100} crystals. We failed to reconcile the optical and X-ray structures by calculating the optical indicatrix with bond polarizability sum models. This led us to estimate the magnitude of other factors which contribute to the optical properties, including strain associated with dislocations which may exert its influence through combined piezoelectric and linear electro-optic effects.

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