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Mechanical properties, strength physics and plasticity

Internal friction in Cu$_6$PS$_5$Br superionic crystals and related composites

V. S. Bilanich, R. Yu. Buchuk, A. E. Petrachenkov, K. V. Skubenich, I. P. Studenyak

Uzhgorod National University

Abstract: Mechanical properties of Cu$_6$PS$_5$Br single crystals and composites based on them have been investigated by the internal friction method. The measurements of the internal friction and the shear modulus have been performed in the temperature range of 80–300 K at deformation frequencies of 10–100 mHz in a mode of forced torsional vibrations. The maxima caused by the superionic and ferroelastic phase transitions have been found in temperature dependences of the internal friction. It has been shown that a more than two-fold decrease in the shear modulus with increasing temperature in the range of 150–230 K is caused by mobility unfreezing in the cation sublattice of the Cu$_6$PS$_5$Br single crystal during the superionic phase transition. An abrupt (more than threefold) increase in the shear modulus upon heating in the range of 260–270 K is caused by the ferroelastic phase transition of the Cu$_6$PS$_5$Br single crystal. Parameters of the internal friction of this single crystal in the course of mentioned phase transitions have been determined.

Received: 19.08.2013
Accepted: 18.10.2013

 English version: Physics of the Solid State, 2014, 56:4, 739–745

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