Department of Physics and Astronomy: Publications and Other Research

 

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2017

Citation

J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 29 (2017) 035005 (5pp)

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© 2016 IOP Publishing Ltd

This document is a U.S. government work and is not subject to copyright in the United States.

doi:10.1088/1361-648X/29/3/035005

Abstract

The effective Debye temperatures (θDE) of the surface region of UO2 single crystals, prepared by the hydrothermal synthesis technique, were obtained from temperature-dependent x-ray photoemission in the temperature range of 300 K–623 K. A lattice stiffening transition, characterized by different regions of different effective Debye temperature, 500 ± 59 K below 475 K and 165 ± 21 K above 475 K is identified. A comparison of the temperature dependence of the effective UO2 Debye temperature, with the changes in the lattice expansion coefficient for UO2, support strong lattice-phonon interaction arising from the Jahn–Teller distortion.

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