Figure 7
Powder patterns taken at several temperatures. The indices of the most representative Bragg reflections with respect to the orthorhombic cell are reported. Some peaks split below 150 K, thus indicating the orthorhombic distortion. The splitting of the pairs 400 + 040 or 240 + 420 is especially remarkable. The superstructure reflections (h + k = 2n+1), such as 230 or 141, are already observed at 170 K, where the orthorhombic distortion is not yet noticeable. |