Abstract

High-pressure X-ray diffraction studies of gadolinum, holmium and lutetium trihydrides have been carried out in a diamond anvil cell up to 30 GPa at room temperature. A reversible structural phase transformation from the hexagonal to cubic phase has been observed for all the hydrides investigated. These results confirm our first discovery of the hexagonal to cubic phase transition in erbium trihydride published recently [T. Palasyuk, M. Tkacz, Solid State Commun. 130 (2004) 219. [1]]. The lattice parameters of the new cubic phases and the volume changes at transition points were determined for SmH 3, GdH 3, and HoH 3. The parameters of the equation of state for all the hexagonal and cubic phases of the investigated compounds have been determined.

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