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Article

Features of the High-Temperature Structural Evolution of GeTe Thermoelectric Probed by Neutron and Synchrotron Powder Diffraction

by
Javier Gainza
1,*,
Federico Serrano-Sánchez
1,
Norbert Marcel Nemes
2,
José Luis Martínez
1,
María Teresa Fernández-Díaz
3 and
José Antonio Alonso
1,*
1
Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 3, 28049 Madrid, Spain
2
Departamento de Física de Materiales, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
3
Institut Laue Langevin, BP 156X, Grenoble F-38042, France
*
Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Metals 2020, 10(1), 48; https://doi.org/10.3390/met10010048
Submission received: 26 November 2019 / Revised: 20 December 2019 / Accepted: 24 December 2019 / Published: 25 December 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Thermoelectric Compounds: Processing, Properties and Applications)
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Abstract

Among other chalcogenide thermoelectric materials, GeTe and derivative alloys are good candidates for intermediate temperature applications, as a replacement for toxic PbTe. We have prepared pure polycrystalline GeTe by using arc-melting, and investigated its structural evolution by using neutron powder diffraction (NPD) and synchrotron X-ray diffraction (SXRD), as well as its correlation with the thermal variation of the Seebeck coefficient. Besides a significant Ge deficiency (~7% Ge vacancies), the thermal evolution of the unit-cell volume and Ge-Te bond lengths in the rhombohedral phase (space group R3m), below 700 K, show unexpected anomalies involving the abrupt Ge-Te bond lengthening accompanied by increased Te thermal displacements. Above 700 K, the sample is cubic (space group Fm-3m) and shows considerably larger displacement parameters for Ge than for Te, as a consequence of the random distribution of the lone pair lobes of Ge2+. The Seebeck coefficient, reaching 120 μV K−1 at 775 K, shows a shoulder in the 500–570 K region that can be correlated to the structural anomaly, modifying the electron-phonon scattering in this temperature range.

1. Introduction

Group IV–VI materials and their alloys display an extensive set of functionalities of scientific and technological interest [1,2]. Among them, Germanium Telluride (GeTe) derivatives have been employed in phase-change non-volatile memory optoelectronic devices and considered for thermoelectric applications [3,4,5]. The implementation of GeTe materials in thermoelectric devices has been investigated as a possible substitute for PbTe. Owing to their excellent electrical transport properties, the thermal transport of GeTe materials have been optimized to show a high-thermoelectric figure of merit, evaluated as z T = S σ κ T , where T is the absolute temperature, S is the Seebeck coefficient, σ is the electrical conductivity, and κ is the total thermal conductivity [6,7,8,9]. The parent GeTe compound presents high-carrier mobilities and concentration [10,11], which are tuned by dopants such as In, Bi, and Sb, to reduce the carrier concentration to an optimum value in order to obtain high power factors and to reduce the lattice thermal conductivity by enhancing phonon scattering mechanisms [12,13,14]. This phonon scattering in GeTe is also promoted by domain boundaries due to the herringbone microstructure commonly found in the rhombohedral phase [15,16]. However, the implementation of GeTe in thermoelectric devices is limited by a structural phase transition due to the concomitant abrupt change in the thermal expansion and transport properties. The underlying mechanisms of this transition have been the aim of many investigations concerning the optimization for commercial devices, but still there are many features to clarify [2,17].
At room temperature, pristine α-GeTe presents a rhombohedral R3m (No. 160) structure, which is described as a distortion of the rocksalt NaCl (PbTe) structure with pseudocubic α angle ≈88.3°. It is a narrow band gap ferroelectric with a degenerate p-type behavior due to the numerous Ge vacancies in the crystalline structure inducing positive electronic carriers. There is a particular distortion of Ge-Te bonds along the [111] direction yielding a net polarization component. This has been denoted as a Peierls distortion in the one dimensional line along the distorted p-bonds [17]. GeTe undergoes a structural phase transition to a cubic Fm-3m structure along with a ferroelectric to paraelectric transition at Tc ~ 705 K [18]. This was described as a displacive second-order transition, as the x parameter deviation and α angle (in the rhombohedral setting) show a continuous variation for which the different lengths of the Ge-Te bonds gradually become equal. An inelastic neutron scattering study proposed this transition as a result of the condensation of three softened phonon modes, and further supported the displacive transition model [19]. Differences in the actual temperature and local mechanisms of the transition have been reported in several works, showing a dependence on the structural defects and nanodomains of the GeTe samples [19,20,21], and the order-disorder nature for the transition has been also proposed to be opposite to the displacive model [20,22]. The formation of Ge vacancies was reported as a crucial component in the transformation to the cubic phase and the linked anomalous sudden volume contraction [23]. Overall, the characteristic transport properties of GeTe have been ascribed to the Ge vacancies, resonant bonding [24], and structural distortion of the crystalline structure [25].
This work reports on an exhaustive structural characterization across the phase transition of GeTe using temperature-dependent high-resolution neutron synchrotron diffraction data. We observed an unreported anomaly in the thermal evolution of the rhombohedral phase concerning the unit-cell volume, bonding distances, and displacement parameters, which can be correlated to the thermoelectric power in the temperature range 500–570 K.

2. Experimental Section

GeTe alloys were obtained as compact pellets directly from an Edmund Buhler mini-arc furnace. Mixtures of nominal 1:1 stoichiometric amounts of analytical grade Ge (Cerac, 99.999%) and Te (Alpha, 99.99%) were ground, pelletized, and molten under Ar atmosphere in a water-cooled Cu crucible, leading to intermetallic ingots. The as-grown ingots were sintered by spark plasma sintering (SPS) at 723 K for 5 min under an axial pressure of 40MPa (Dr. Sinter SPS-1050-CE, Fuji Electronic Industrial, Saitama, Japan) for transport characterization, or ground into powder for structural analysis. A laboratory XRD pattern was collected on a Bruker D5 diffractometer (Bruker, Karlsruhe, Germany) with KαCu (λ = 1.5418 Å) radiation. To study the crystallographic structure evolution, NPD patterns were collected at room temperature in the D2B instrument (Institute Laue Langevin, Grenoble, France) with a wavelength of 1.594 Å, at room-temperature (298 K, RT) and at 523, 573, 633 and 683 K. The powder sample (about 2 g), contained in a V cylinder, was introduced in a vanadium furnace working under vacuum (10−5 mbar). The measurements lasted 2 h in the high-flux mode. In order to complement the high-temperature structural evolution, synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction (SXRD) patterns were collected at 303, 663, 703, 743, and 783 K, in the MSPD diffractometer at the ALBA facility, Barcelona (Spain), selecting an incident beam with 28 keV energy, λ = 0.4427 Å. The high angular resolution mode (MAD set-up) was selected [26]. The polycrystalline powder was contained in quartz capillaries of 0.7 mm diameter, which were rotating during the acquisition time. In both cases, the refinement of the structure was performed by the Rietveld method using the Fullprof software (version Sept 2018, Grenoble, France) [27,28]. A pseudo-Voigt function was chosen to generate the line shape of the diffraction peaks. The background was interpolated between regions devoid of reflections. The following parameters were refined in the final run: scale factor, background coefficients, zero-point error, pseudo-Voigt corrected for asymmetry parameters, positional coordinates, anisotropic displacement factors, and occupancy factors. For the neutron refinements, the coherent scattering lengths for Ge and Te were 8.185 and 5.80 fm, respectively. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) measurements were performed in a Mettler TA3000 system (Mettler-Toledo, Columbus, OH, USA) equipped with a DSC30 unit, in the temperature range from 50 to 540 °C. The heating and cooling rates were 10 °C min−1, using about 70 mg of sample. The Seebeck coefficient was measured in a home-made apparatus using niobium and chromel thermocouples [29].

3. Results and Discussion

Polycrystalline GeTe was obtained by carefully grinding the as-grown ingot from the arc furnace. The X-ray diffraction pattern collected with Cu Kα radiation (Figure 1a) corresponds to the well-known rhombohedral structure, as identified via Rietveld refinement. No impurities or unreacted products were detected.
The well-known structural transition from rhombohedral to cubic above room-temperature was previously characterized by DSC measurements. Figure 1b displays the DSC curves for the heating and cooling runs. An endothermic peak at 699 K was observed during the heating run corresponding to the structural phase transition, while the cooling run presents an exothermic peak at 683 K, showing a significant hysteretic effect suggesting a first-order transition. These results are in agreement with the previous thermal analysis data of GeTe [30], reporting Tt = 700 K.
A neutron powder diffraction (NPD) study was essential for investigating the structural evolution when approaching the phase transition. NPD data were collected at 298, 523, 573, 633, and 683 K, just below the structural transition, in order to unveil details of the structural arrangement in correlation with certain anomalies in the Seebeck coefficient thermal evolution, as described below. Neutrons take advantage of the access to a large region of the reciprocal space with no form factors, enabling them to decouple the displacement factors and occupancy factors during the structural refinement. The rhombohedral crystal structure was defined in the acentric R3m space group (No. 160), Z = 3, in the hexagonal setting, with unit-cell parameters at 298 K of a = 4.15871 (9) Å and c = 10.6731 (3) Å, and V = 159.86(1) Å3. The starting model was taken from Chattopadhyay et al. [18] Both Ge and Te atoms were located at 3a (0,0,z) positions. The z parameter for Ge was fixed to that given in reference [16], since the simultaneous refinement of z for Ge and Te is not possible in an acentric space group. Anisotropic displacement factors were refined for both atoms; the occupancy factors of Ge (with respect to Te fixed to unity) gave a substantial departure from the full stoichiometry, as Ge0.927(15)Te. Table 1 condenses the most important parameters after the Rietveld refinement. The same rhombohedral model was utilized to refine the crystal structures between 523 K and 683 K. The rhombohedral distortion becomes weaker as it approaches the phase transition, which is manifested as a progressive disappearance of the characteristic splitting of some reflections. This is illustrated in the Rietveld plots included in Figure 2a at 523 K, and Figure 2b at 683 K.
The displacement ellipsoids and full coordination at RT are shown in the representation of the crystal structure of Figure 3. Ge atoms present cigar-shaped displacement factors oriented along the c-axis direction.
The structural view at 298 K highlights the coordination polyhedron for Ge, which can be considered to be octahedral, although there are three short (2.83 Å at RT) and three longer (3.17 Å at RT) distances (see Table 1), conferring a certain layered character to the crystal structure. The non-monotonous evolution of the displacement factors shown in Figure 3 (also in Table 1) is noteworthy. A large increment of the Ge ellipsoid is observed between 298 and 523 K, which is then reduced for higher temperatures. In parallel, the Te ellipsoid also undergoes an irregular evolution, attaining a maximum size and anisotropy at 573 K. The detailed analysis of the crystal structure also displays anomalies in this temperature region, always within the stability range of the rhombohedral phase, as shown in Figure 4.
The unit-cell parameters (a and c in the hexagonal description of the rhombohedral lattice) converge upon being heated as the structural transition is approached, but the unit-cell volume (Figure 4b) shows an anomaly (marked with an arrow) between 523 and 573 K, which corresponds to an extra expansion of the short Ge-Te bonds, as shown in Figure 4c. This feature had not been reported before and it is concomitant with the abrupt modification of the displacement factors (Figure 3): those of Ge are decreasing, while Te experiences an enhanced displacement along the c axis of the ellipsoid, suggesting a looser chemical bond at this temperature corresponding to the longer bonding distances of around 2.89 Å at 573 K. Beyond this temperature, the thermal parameters behave as expected (Figure 3 and Table 1), progressively increasing with T. This anomaly, which is not correlated to any phase transition, has a repercussion in the physical properties, as we will see below.
For the high-temperature analysis, a SXRD experiment was performed at selected temperatures (303, 663, 703, 743, and 783 K). The RT pattern (303 K) confirms the already described rhombohedral structure, since the next studied temperature, 663 K, already shows an incipient cubic structure. Presumably the measurement conditions, with the sample in a sealed quartz capillary, promote a slight shift of the transition temperature, which has been demonstrated to be very sensitive to chemical doping or external conditions [31,32,33]. Figure 5 shows a selected angular range that illustrates this phase transition. It is noteworthy that the extremely high resolution of the MSPD instrument involving the splitting of the characteristic (104) and (110) peaks at the 303 K rhombohedral phase.
At 663 K and above the cubic symmetry is defined in the space group Fm 3 ¯ m (rock-salt structure): Ge atoms are located at 1a (0,0,0) and Te atoms are placed at 1c (½,½,½) Wyckoff site. Figure 6 plots the Rietveld refinements and selected temperatures, showing an excellent agreement between observed and calculated profiles, including an inset with a view of the cubic crystal structure above 663 K. It also consists of a 3D framework of GeTe6 octahedra sharing edges along the three crystallographic directions, but these octahedra contain six equal Ge-Te distances. The main crystallographic data are listed in Table 2. Figure 7a plots the thermal variation of the cubic unit-cell parameter above the transition temperature, Figure 7b depicts the evolution of the displacement factors for Ge and Te, and Figure 7c shows the variation of the main interatomic distances both below (from NPD data) and above (from SXRD data) the phase transition.
Although in the cubic phase the displacement factors are isotropic by symmetry, it is remarkable that the Ge ones are consistently much larger than those of Te (Table 2, Figure 7b). This has been observed in other alloys crystallizing in rock-salt-type structures, like PbTe [34]. This effect can be attributed to the presence of the lone electron pair of Ge2+ ions (in an ionic model, assuming a total electron transfer from Ge to Te atoms). In a very symmetric unit cell, this electron lobe must be located at random in neighboring GeTe6 octahedra, leading to subtle shifts of the Ge ions and distinct Ge-Te chemical bonds in an opposite location to that of the lone pairs, which indeed occupy a significant space in the crystal. In a diffraction domain, this effect of disorder or smearing of the scattering density is translated into an enhanced displacement factor for Ge atoms.
Furthermore, the occupancy and atomic mass weighted Uiso displacement factors can typically be analyzed using a Debye-model with simple structures [35]. However, this analysis fails spectacularly as shown by the low quality of the least squares fit in Figure 7b (yielding a nominal 220 K Debye temperature and rather high 0.13 Å static disorder parameter). Interestingly, the Uiso of Ge on its own can be analyzed and well fit in terms of an Einstein-oscillator model. This model is often used to describe “rattlers” in thermoelectric materials as candidates for the so-called phonon glass electron crystal (PGEC) approach. We here raise the possibility that the Ge in Ge-deficient GeTe behaves somewhat akin to a rattler, with an Einstein energy of 8.3 meV and a relatively modest 0.09 Å static disorder parameter. Similar analysis of the Uiso of Te yields a negative squared static disorder parameter, indicating the limits of this approach.
The Seebeck coefficient measured in a home-made apparatus is shown in Figure 8. In a previous report [36] we showed that a high-carrier concentration of positive charge carriers in GeTe is due to Ge vacancies present in the crystal structure, as observed from NPD data. In agreement with this hypothesis, the temperature evolution is comparable to a heavily doped semiconductor and is dominated by hole mobility [37,38,39]. The maximum Seebeck coefficient (120 μV K−1 at 775 K) is slightly reduced compared to other samples previously reported in the literature, with values closer to 150 μV K−1 at 700 K [13,14,40]. The Hall-carrier concentration was reported as 1.72 × 1021 cm−3 (at 250 K), in the temperature range 200–350 K [33]. Note the conspicuous presence of a shoulder in the Seebeck curve, between 500 and 570 K. This can be correlated to the structural feature observed from NPD data in the same temperature range (Figure 4c), consisting of a sudden increase of the 3 short distances of the GeTe6 octahedra, together with an increment of the Te displacement factors. In a qualitative way, the lengthening of the chemical bonds seems to suggest a reduced electron delocalization corresponding to the observed structural rearrangement. Most likely, this event in the structural evolution causes a sudden change in the electron-phonon scattering, which affects the Seebeck coefficient [41]. It is an open question whether this behavior is correlated to the significant Ge deficiency observed in our sample, since this anomaly is not reported in other works [5,42,43]. However, the aforementioned shoulder is present in other reports of the S vs. T curve [12,44,45] but it had never been correlated to structural features. We describe, therefore, a phenomenological relationship between crystal structure and properties that can be extrapolated to other GeTe-like materials.

4. Conclusions

Polycrystalline GeTe ingots were prepared through arc-melting synthesis, yielding a pure yet Ge-deficient (7% vacancies) material. The careful examination of the rhombohedral crystal structure evolution in the temperature range below the phase transition unveils an anomaly in the volume expansion, coupled with an abrupt stretching effect of the three short Ge-Te bonds that characterize the coordination polyhedra, as well as an increment of the Te displacement factors. This is concomitant with conspicuous changes in the Seebeck coefficient, presenting a shoulder in the temperature evolution curve. Above 699 K (according the DSC peak) or 663 K (from temperature-dependent SXRD data) the crystal structure is cubic, Fm-3m, showing a linear thermal expansion and significantly greater displacement factors for Ge vs. Te, attributed to the random distribution of the lone electron pair lobes in neighboring Ge positions.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization, J.A.A.; methodology, J.G., F.S.-S., N.M.N., M.T.F.-D., J.A.A.; software, J.G., M.T.F.-D., J.A.A.; validation M.T.F.-D., J.A.A.; formal analysis, M.T.F.-D., J.A.A.; investigation, J.G., F.S.-S, N.M.N., J.A.A.; resources, M.T.F.-D.; data curation, J.G., J.A.A.; writing—original draft preparation, F.S.-S., J.A.A.; writing—review and editing, J.G., F.S.-S., N.M.N., J.L.M., M.T.F.-D., J.A.A.; visualization, J.A.A.; supervision, N.M.N., J.A.A.; project administration, J.L.M., J.A.A.; funding acquisition, J.L.M., J.A.A. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

This research was funded by Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MICIIN) for granting the projects MAT2017-84496-R and MAT2014-52405-C2-2-R.

Acknowledgments

We are grateful to the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MICIIN) for granting the projects MAT2017-84496-R and MAT2014-52405-C2-2-R, and ILL for making all facilities available for the neutron diffraction experiments. Javier Gainza thanks MICINN for granting the contract PRE2018-083398.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1. (a) XRD pattern of GeTe from laboratory XRD, displaying the characteristic splitting of the rhombohedral phase at RT; (b) Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) curves, showing an endothermic peak in the heating run, and an exothermic peak in the cooling run.
Figure 1. (a) XRD pattern of GeTe from laboratory XRD, displaying the characteristic splitting of the rhombohedral phase at RT; (b) Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) curves, showing an endothermic peak in the heating run, and an exothermic peak in the cooling run.
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Figure 2. Neutron powder diffraction (NPD) profiles after the Rietveld refinement of the rhombohedral crystal structure at (a) 523 K and (b) 683 K.
Figure 2. Neutron powder diffraction (NPD) profiles after the Rietveld refinement of the rhombohedral crystal structure at (a) 523 K and (b) 683 K.
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Figure 3. Views of the rhombohedral crystal structure, highlighting the evolution of the displacement parameters with temperature, from NPD data.
Figure 3. Views of the rhombohedral crystal structure, highlighting the evolution of the displacement parameters with temperature, from NPD data.
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Figure 4. Thermal evolution of (a) a and c unit cell parameters in the hexagonal description of the rhombohedral structure, (b) unit-cell volume and (c) short and long Ge-Te distances of the GeTe6 octahedra (see Figure 3 at 298 K), from NPD data. The arrow signals an anomaly in volume and bond-length expansion.
Figure 4. Thermal evolution of (a) a and c unit cell parameters in the hexagonal description of the rhombohedral structure, (b) unit-cell volume and (c) short and long Ge-Te distances of the GeTe6 octahedra (see Figure 3 at 298 K), from NPD data. The arrow signals an anomaly in volume and bond-length expansion.
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Figure 5. Thermal evolution of selected regions of the SXRD patterns of GeTe, in which a rhombohedral to cubic phase transition is evidenced.
Figure 5. Thermal evolution of selected regions of the SXRD patterns of GeTe, in which a rhombohedral to cubic phase transition is evidenced.
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Figure 6. SXRD profiles after the Rietveld refinement of the crystal structure for the 303 K pattern (rhombohedral) and 783 K pattern (cubic).
Figure 6. SXRD profiles after the Rietveld refinement of the crystal structure for the 303 K pattern (rhombohedral) and 783 K pattern (cubic).
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Figure 7. Thermal evolution of (a) unit cell parameters of the cubic phase at 663 K and above; (b) displacement factors, Uiso, for Ge (red circles) and Te (blue triangles) with corresponding Einstein oscillator analysis, and averaged Uiso (black squares) with Debye analysis, indicating the best-fit Einstein and Debye temperatures and static disorder parameters; and (c) Ge-Te distances, including those obtained below the transition from NPD data, and above from SXRD data.
Figure 7. Thermal evolution of (a) unit cell parameters of the cubic phase at 663 K and above; (b) displacement factors, Uiso, for Ge (red circles) and Te (blue triangles) with corresponding Einstein oscillator analysis, and averaged Uiso (black squares) with Debye analysis, indicating the best-fit Einstein and Debye temperatures and static disorder parameters; and (c) Ge-Te distances, including those obtained below the transition from NPD data, and above from SXRD data.
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Figure 8. Seebeck coefficient thermal evolution, showing a shoulder between 500–570 K.
Figure 8. Seebeck coefficient thermal evolution, showing a shoulder between 500–570 K.
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Table 1. Main structural parameters after the Rietveld refinement from NPD data for GeTe in the rhombohedral (R3m) phase (hexagonal setting).
Table 1. Main structural parameters after the Rietveld refinement from NPD data for GeTe in the rhombohedral (R3m) phase (hexagonal setting).
Temperature (K)298523573633683
a/Å4.15871(9)4.18835(16)4.20193(15)4.21864(12)4.23462(10)
c/Å10.6731(3)10.6155(6)10.5841(5)10.5258(4)10.4734(3)
V/Å3159.859(7)161.271(12)161.839(11)162.231(9)162.647(8)
z (Ge)/Å0.237600.237600.237600.237600.23760
focc Ge0.927(15)0.9270.9270.9270.927
U11 (Ge)/Å20.016(2)0.029(3)0.0277(14)0.0338(18)0.038(2)
U33 (Ge)/Å20.028(4)0.067(3)0.0256(19)0.039(11)0.039(10)
U12 (Ge)/Å20.008(2)0.014(3)0.0139(14)0.0169(18)0.019(2)
z (Te)/Å0.76439(15)0.7608(3)0.7568(9)0.7566(13)0.752(2)
U11 (Te)/Å20.015(3)0.016(3)0.0284(17)0.031(2)0.031(2)
U33 (Te)/Å20.005(3)0.0098(16)0.062(7)0.046(18)0.044(17)
U12 (Te)/Å20.007(3)0.008(3)0.0142(17)0.015(2)0.016(2)
d (Ge-Te)/Å2.8273(8)2.8578(17)2.885(5)2.889(7)2.919(11)
d (Ge-Te)/Å3.1667(10)3.148(2)3.123(6)3.123(9)3.094(13)
Table 2. Main structural parameters after the Rietveld refinement from NPD data for GeTe: rhombohedral (R3m) at 303 K and cubic (Fm-3m) at 663 K and above.
Table 2. Main structural parameters after the Rietveld refinement from NPD data for GeTe: rhombohedral (R3m) at 303 K and cubic (Fm-3m) at 663 K and above.
Temperature (K)303663703743783
a/Å4.16855(3)5.98590(6)5.99077(4)5.99615(5)6.00257(6)
c/Å10.66545(9)
V/Å3160.502(2)214.481(4)215.004(3)215.585(3)216.277(4)
z (Ge)/Å0.23760
z (Te)/Å0.7642(6)
U11 (Ge)/Å20.017(3)0.0509(19)0.0539(16)0.0562(18)0.0587(19)
U33 (Ge)/Å20.015(9)
U12 (Ge)/Å20.008(3)
U11 (Te)/Å20.0106(14)0.0282(9)0.0309(8)0.0329(8)0.0348(9)
U33 (Te)/Å20.015(4)
U12(Te)/Å20.0053(14)
d (Ge-Te)/Å2.833(3) (x3)2.99295(3)(x6)2.99539(2)2.99808(2)3.00129(3)
d (Ge-Te)/Å3.169(4) (x3)

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