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Temperature dependent Re L3-edge X-ray absorption study of crystalline rhenium trioxide ReO3

  • A. Kuzmin*
  • , J. Purans
  • , G. Dalba
  • , P. Fornasini
  • , F. Rocca
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • University of Trento
  • National Research Council of Italy

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Abstract

X-ray absorption spectroscopy study of crystalline ReO3 was performed at the Re L3-edge in the temperature interval from 77 to 670 K. The analysis of both XANES and EXAFS regions shows that in ReO3, a progressive localization of the 5d states following the temperature increase is accompanied at T > 350 K by a distortion of the ReO6 octahedra. The distortion increases continuously up to the ReO3 decomposition temperature Td ≈ 673 K and leads to the lowering of the rhenium site symmetry from Oh (T ≤ 350 K) → D4h, (T ≈ 513 K) → C4v (T ≈ 668 K). The observed distortion is explained by (i) the strong electron-phonon coupling of the 5d electron with the M3 and M′3Z phonons and (ii) the Jahn-Teller-like effect caused by the rhenium 5d1 electron which becomes localized at high temperature.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)C2-1119-C2-1120
JournalJournal De Physique. IV : JP
Volume7
Issue number2 Part 2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1997

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