a Centre for Heavy Metals Research, School of Chemistry, University of Sydney, 2006 Sydney, NSW, Australia b Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973-5000, USA
Abstract:
Synchrotron powder diffraction has been used to examine the crystal structure of the TiF3 between 20 and 450 K with emphasis on the cubic to rhombohedral structural phase transition near 370 K. This transition involves an apparently continuous reduction in the tilts of the TiF6 octahedra. A remarkable difference in the thermal expansion coefficients in the two phases is observed.