Abstract
This work presents for the first time a measurement on inhibition of the
ferroelastic phase transition in CsLiSO4 crystals at temperature 202 K.
The result is obtained by application of uniaxial pressure up to 1 kbar,
which is directed along the 010 axis relative to the orthorhombic
structure. Stabilization of the monoclinic phase is found due to the
fact that the soft TA phonon becomes uncoupled to the hard TO phonon and
does not approach to zero at 202 K. Therefore, the behavior of the
dielectric constant epsilon(2) exhibits a normal dependence on the
temperature. We have performed a simple theoretical analysis to
calculate the TA and TO phonon energies. From these results the uniaxial
pressure - temperature phase diagram of CsLiSO4 is determined.
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