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Post-perovskite

MgGeO3

Birch-Murnaghan (order unspecified) · Original · 2006

V₀
178.02
ų
Unit cell
K₀
201.900
GPa
Isothermal
K′
4.340
dimensionless

Volume (V₀)

Value Unit Basis Z
178.02 ų Unit cell

Reported value and unit are preserved as extracted. Z (formula units per cell) is not stored yet, so molar ↔ ų/f.u. conversion is not applied automatically.

Composition

OxideMolar
MgO1
GeO21

Formula: MgGeO3

Conditions & method

Tref
Pref
Structure
post-perovskite (CaIrO3-type, Cmcm)
Method
first-principles DFT / ab initio
first-principles calculations, density functional theory (LDA, VASP, PAW)
Sample
DFT (LDA) calculation, this study

Source

Paper
Stability and equation of state of the post‐perovskite phase in MgGeO3 to 2 Mbar
Authors
Atsushi Kubo; Boris Kiefer; Guoyin Shen; Vitali B. Prakapenka; R. J. Cava; T. S. Duffy
DOI
10.1029/2006gl025686
Year
2006
Journal
Geophysical Research Letters
Origin
Original (measured or fitted in the source paper)

Evidence from the paper

Our DFT calculations at 0 K yielded V0 = 178.02 Å3, K0 = 201.9 GPa, and K'0 = 4.34 for the pPv phase (Table 2). Table 2: MgGeO3 178.02 201.9 4.34 DFT, 1 (This study).