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Fast, L., Ahuja, R., Nordstrom, L., Wills, J.M., Johansson, B. and Eriksson, O. (1997) Anomaly in c/a Ratio of Zn under Pressure. Physical Review Letters, 79, 2301-2303.
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.2301

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• TITLE: The Zinc Story under High Pressure

  AUTHORS: Kenichi Takemura

  KEYWORDS: Zinc, High Pressure, Crystal Structure, Electronic Topological Transition

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Minerals and Materials Characterization and Engineering, Vol.7 No.5, September 25, 2019

  ABSTRACT: A historical review is presented on the experimental and theoretical studies on Zn under high pressure. Based on our high-pressure powder x-ray diffraction experiments that have been done for nearly a decade, we describe the structural change of Zn up to 126 GPa at room temperature. Although several experimental and theoretical studies indicated an anomalous change of the c/a axial ratio with pressure, we found no such an anomaly within our experimental uncertainty. Our high-pressure low-temperature experiments up to 18 GPa at 40 K also gave no evidence of the c/a anomaly. We suspect that the pressure-transmitting media played an important role in producing the anomaly. The structural anisotropy of Zn is drastically reduced at high pressures, which would be a general trend for hexagonal close-packed (hcp) metals.