Abstract
AbstractThe lattice dynamics of a fully‐deuterated single crystal of s‐triazine is investigated using the technique of coherent inelastic neutron scattering. Detailed measurements of the temperature dependence of the dispersion of the soft acoustic mode associated with the ferroelastic phase transition are reported and compared with the qualitative behaviour of other acoustic modes. The results are in agreement with an analysis of the acoustic dynamical matrix for this material which predicts that in the high‐temperature phase the combination of elastic constants C2eff = 1/2(C11 − C12) C44 − C214 should become unstable on cooling towards the transition temperature. This effective elastic constant is found to have a temperature dependence of the form Ceff = C0(T − T0) with C0 = 3.404 × 106 Nm−2K−1 and T0 = 172.4 K. Measurements of some optic mode frequencies are also reported.
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