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X-ray diffraction studies of Eu2(MoO4)3 single crystals were performed, which demonstrate that, in contrast to polycrystalline samples, these crystals do not exhibit amorphous-like diffraction patterns during the reverse transition from the high-pressure phase into the initial β phase; rather, the diffracted intensity in their diffraction patterns decreases significantly to the background. Such a diffraction pattern can be explained under the assumption that a single crystal is divided into small (nanoscopic) regions inside which the lattice parameters of the high-pressure phase and the initial β phase change continuously. The simultaneous recovery of the single-crystal state of the β phase from this intermediate state in all nanoscopic regions as the annealing temperature increases indicates that nanocrystals in this state are structurally correlated with each other. This result suggests that the halo-type diffraction patterns of polycrystalline samples reflect an intermediate state between the high-pressure phase and the β phase in every initial crystallite (as in the single crystals) rather than being caused by an amorphous structure of the sample. In this case, the total diffraction pattern of differently oriented crystallites gives an amorphous-like diffraction pattern reflecting the contributions from numerous various crystallographic planes involved in diffraction.
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Original Russian Text © I.M. Shmyt’ko, E.A. Kudrenko, V.V. Sinitsyn, B.S. Red’kin, E.G. Ponyatovskiĭ, 2007, published in Fizika Tverdogo Tela, 2007, Vol. 49, No. 5, pp. 891–898.
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Shmyt’ko, I.M., Kudrenko, E.A., Sinitsyn, V.V. et al. Structural aspects of solid-state amorphization in Eu2(MoO4)3 single crystals. Phys. Solid State 49, 941–948 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S106378340705023X
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