Elastic Constants of Barium Fluoride Between 4.2 and 300°K
- 31 August 1964
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 135 (5A), A1331-A1333
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.135.a1331
Abstract
The elastic constants of single-crystal barium fluoride have been determined in the 4.2-300°K temperature range, by an ultrasonic pulse-echo technique. The values of the elastic constants, extrapolated to 0°K, in units of dyn/, are: , , and . The constants , and change by about 10%, while hardly changes over the above temperature range. Barium fluoride is found to be mechanically isotropic, the value of the anisotropy factor being close to unity between 4.2 and 300°K. A value of 282°K for the Debye temperature at 0°K is computed from the elastic constants. The values of the elastic constants are deduced theoretically from a rigid-ion model, and the results compared with the experimental data.
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