Estudo das transições de fase nos sistemas Cs4W11O35 e Rb4W11O35 submetidos a variações de temperatura

Abstract

The Rb4W11O35 and Cs4W11O35 compounds, belongs to the valence balanced hexagonal tungsten materials with ABxW3-xO9 stoichiometry (with A = Cs, K, Rb, Tl, and B = Bi, Nd, Ta, Zr, Sc, etc.) These materials present interesting physical properties like rich sequence of phase transitions (rich polymorphism), ferroelectric properties and second harmonic generation. Despite of the unknown structures, Rb4W11O35 and Cs4W11O35, of that systems (we mean spatial symmetry), X-ray experiments suggest that rubidium and cesium hexatungstates are isostructural with orthorhombic structure belonging possibly to Pbn21, Pbc21 or Cmm2 space group symmetry. In addition, X-ray diffraction showed that the KNbW2O9, RbNbW2O9 KTaW2O9 compounds are isostructural, crystallizing in the polar noncentrosymmetric space group Cmm2. The aim of this study was to investigate the vibrational properties of the compounds Cs4W11O35 and Rb4W11O35 with special focus on the dependence of vibrational modes with low temperature via infrared spectroscopy. We report in this work results light scattering low temperature experiment in the 295-38 K temperature range and comparing the measures in the infrared range 473-73 K. Also present IR spectra and photoluminescence investigation at room temperature and pressure and lattice dynamics phonons calculation in parent structure. The Cs4W11O35 was doped with a small percentage, 2%, Eu3+ transition metal aiming to use it as a probe to perform measurements of photoluminescence ion. With this procedure, we see that Eu3+, occupies a site of low symmetry. The Rb4W11O35 presents phase transitions at low temperatures, around 200 K and the other around 100 K when analyzed by light scattering and IR spectra. The Cs4W11O35 also present two phase transitions at lower temperatures, around 165 K and the other around 110 K, however, such transitions are visible only light scattering, the modes most likely to suffer action of these transitions are inactive IR. Because the structure of these materials are not known in the literature. We have utilized lattice dynamics phonon calculations on network K0,26WO3 (KNbW2O9) to analyze Rb4W11O35 (Cs4W11O35), since such hexatungstatos have very similar Raman signature such calculations have good agreement with experimental data. The objective of this study was to understand the main aspects of the vibrational properties of K0,26WO3 and KNbW2O9. These results allowed us to interpret the transformation mechanisms of the observed temperature induced phase transitions. The lattice dynamics calculations revealed the existence of radial and tangential motions of oxygen atoms belonging to the hexagonal cavities. The tubular like modes command the dynamics of phase transitions in hexagonal tungsten systems.