@article{02e07d5a854c47b8a6a88a52212c88b6,
title = "Elastic, magnetic and electronic properties of iridium phosphide Ir2P",
abstract = "Cubic (space group: Fmm) iridium phosphide, Ir 2 P, has been synthesized at high pressure and high temperature. Angle-dispersive synchrotron X-ray diffraction measurements on Ir 2 P powder using a diamond-anvil cell at room temperature and high pressures (up to 40.6 GPa) yielded a bulk modulus of B 0 = 306(6) GPa and its pressure derivative B 0 ′ = 6.4(5). Such a high bulk modulus attributed to the short and strongly covalent Ir-P bonds as revealed by first - principles calculations and three-dimensionally distributed [IrP 4 ] tetrahedron network. Indentation testing on a well-sintered polycrystalline sample yielded the hardness of 11.8(4) GPa. Relatively low shear modulus of ∼64 GPa from theoretical calculations suggests a complicated overall bonding in Ir 2 P with metallic, ionic, and covalent characteristics. In addition, a spin glass behavior is indicated by magnetic susceptibility measurements.",
author = "Pei Wang and Yonggang Wang and Liping Wang and Xinyu Zhang and Xiaohui Yu and Jinlong Zhu and Shanmin Wang and Jiaqian Qin and Kurt Leinenweber and Haihua Chen and Duanwei He and Yusheng Zhao",
note = "Funding Information: We thank Jesse Smith for experimental help. This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51472171 & 11427810), the China 973 Program (Grant No. 2011CB808200), China Scholarship Council (File No. 201406240006), the Youth Natural Science in Qinghai Province of China (Grant No. 2014-ZJ-942Q), and the Ministry of Education Special Funds of China (Grant No. Z2014016), and the National Nuclear Security Administration under the Stewardship Science Academic Alliances program through DOE Cooperative Agreement #DE-NA0001982. The use of HPCAT (16ID-B), APS is supported by the Carnegie Institute of Washington, Carnegie DOE Alliance Center, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory through funding from the DOE-National Nuclear Security Administration, the DOE-Basic Energy Sciences, and the NSF; the APS is supported by the DOE-BES, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357.",
year = "2016",
month = feb,
day = "24",
doi = "10.1038/srep21787",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "6",
journal = "Scientific reports",
issn = "2045-2322",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
}