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Journal of the Electrochemical Society, Vol.149, No.10, A1381-A1384, 2002
Observation of two kinds of structural phase transitions in the Ba2In2O5 system
Structural phase transitions of Ba2In2O5 at high temperatures were investigated by thermal gravimetric-differential thermal analysis (TG-DTA), dilatometry, and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). It was revealed that there exist three phases in Ba2In2O5. At similar to910degreesC, a first-order structural phase transition was observed involving absorption of heat and discrete decrease of volume, which agreed well with the reported order-disorder transition of oxide-ion vacancy. At;1070degrees C, a second-order phase transition involving discrete increase of thermal expansion coefficient was observed. The crystal structures of these three phases of Ba2In2O5 were investigated by means of high-temperature X-ray diffractometry (XRD). The XRD patterns at 900 and 1200degrees C could be indexed assuming brownmillerite-type orthorhombic and tetragonal crystal structures, respectively. The diffraction pattern obtained at 1000degrees C could not be explained as ideal cubic perovskite structure with disordered oxide-ion vacancy. High-temperature XRD also revealed that rate of the phase transition at 904degrees C was low, corresponding to high activation energy of the phase transition estimated by using a Kissinger plot of DTA curves.