Figure 2
(a) Temperature evolution of a part of the YMnO3 diffraction patterns, with increasing temperature from 1000 to 1400 K (top to bottom). The arrow indicates a Bragg peak due to a trimer distortion (Katsufuji et al., 2002). The intensity of the Bragg peak decreases with increasing temperature and disappears at 1250 K, indicating a phase transition. (b) For YbMnO3, the Bragg peak does not disappear up to T = 1350 K. Only the position of the Bragg peak shifts toward high d spacing. For clarity, the diffraction patterns are shifted vertically from one another. |