Abstract
Sequential Rietveld refinements were applied on high-pressure synchrotron powder X-ray diffraction measurements of lanthanum ferrite (LaFeO3) revealing two phase transitions on the room-temperature isotherm up to a pressure of 48 GPa. The first structural phase transition of second order occurs at a pressure of 21.1 GPa, changing the space group from Pbnm to Ibmm. The second transition, involving a isostructural first-order phase transition, occurs at approximately 38 GPa, indicating a high-spin to low-spin transition of the Fe(3+) ion. Following the behavior of the volume up to the hydrostatic limit of methanol-ethanol it was possible to use inverted equations of state (EoS) to determine a bulk modulus of B0 = 172 GPa and a corresponding pressure derivative of B'0 = 4.3. In addition, the linearized version of the inverted EoS were used to determine the corresponding moduli and pressure derivatives for each lattice direction.
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