Properties of solid hydrogen doped by heavy atomic and molecular impurities

Using powder x-ray diffraction we studied the structural characteristics of normal and para hydrogen crystals doped with Ar, Kr, N₂, and O₂ impurities over the range from 5 K to the melting point of the hydrogen matrix. It has been established that in spite of very low solubility of the dopants in s...

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spelling irk-123456789-1289282018-01-15T03:03:04Z Properties of solid hydrogen doped by heavy atomic and molecular impurities Galtsov, N.N. Prokhvatilov, A.I. Shcherbakov, G.N. Strzhemechny, M.A. Low-Temperature Thermodynamics and Structure Using powder x-ray diffraction we studied the structural characteristics of normal and para hydrogen crystals doped with Ar, Kr, N₂, and O₂ impurities over the range from 5 K to the melting point of the hydrogen matrix. It has been established that in spite of very low solubility of the dopants in solid hydrogen, these impurities appreciably affect the structural characteristics. In particular, only nitrogen impurities do not change the molar volume of the matrix, the other three make the matrix expand. The Ar and Kr impurities also change the c/a ratio of the hcp matrix. The fact that both Ar and O₂ have smaller molar volumes than hydrogen may be treated as evidence that these impurities form van der Waals complexes with the hydrogen lattice environment. 2003 Article Properties of solid hydrogen doped by heavy atomic and molecular impurities / N.N. Galtsov, A.I. Prokhvatilov, G.N. Shcherbakov, M.A. Strzhemechny // Физика низких температур. — 2003. — Т. 29, № 9-10. — С. 1036-1040. — Бібліогр.: 28 назв. — англ. 0132-6414 PACS: 67.80.Mg, 67.90.+z http://dspace.nbuv.gov.ua/handle/123456789/128928 en Физика низких температур Фізико-технічний інститут низьких температур ім. Б.І. Вєркіна НАН України
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Properties of solid hydrogen doped by heavy atomic and molecular impurities
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description Using powder x-ray diffraction we studied the structural characteristics of normal and para hydrogen crystals doped with Ar, Kr, N₂, and O₂ impurities over the range from 5 K to the melting point of the hydrogen matrix. It has been established that in spite of very low solubility of the dopants in solid hydrogen, these impurities appreciably affect the structural characteristics. In particular, only nitrogen impurities do not change the molar volume of the matrix, the other three make the matrix expand. The Ar and Kr impurities also change the c/a ratio of the hcp matrix. The fact that both Ar and O₂ have smaller molar volumes than hydrogen may be treated as evidence that these impurities form van der Waals complexes with the hydrogen lattice environment.
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fulltext Fizika Nizkikh Temperatur, 2003, v. 29, Nos. 9/10, p. 1036–1040 Properties of solid hydrogen doped by heavy atomic and molecular impurities N.N. Galtsov, A.I. Prokhvatilov, G.N. Shcherbakov, and M.A. Strzhemechny B. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 47 Lenin Ave., Kharkov 61103, Ukraine E-mail: galtsov@ilt.kharkov.ua Using powder x-ray diffraction we studied the structural characteristics of normal and para hy- drogen crystals doped with Ar, Kr, N2, and O2 impurities over the range from 5 K to the melting point of the hydrogen matrix. It has been established that in spite of very low solubility of the dopants in solid hydrogen, these impurities appreciably affect the structural characteristics. In particular, only nitrogen impurities do not change the molar volume of the matrix, the other three make the matrix expand. The Ar and Kr impurities also change the c/a ratio of the hcp matrix. The fact that both Ar and O2 have smaller molar volumes than hydrogen may be treated as evi- dence that these impurities form van der Waals complexes with the hydrogen lattice environment. PACS: 67.80.Mg, 67.90.+z Solid mixtures of hydrogen with rare gas and sim- ple molecular species are interesting for several rea- sons. At high pressures, some of such mixtures can form stoichiometric solid-state compounds, like Ar(H2)2 [1] or hydrogen-methane ordered alloys [2]. At low pressures, hydrogen-containing alloys with smaller molecular (atomic) species can be expected to form random binary systems that would in many as- pects resemble helium-impurity gels [3,4]. Quench condensed Ar–H2 mixtures at sufficiently high H2 contents in the source gas show many properties that could be treated as pertaining to gels of that kind [5]. In strongly diluted H2-based mixtures one can expect the formation of van der Waals (VdW) complexes, loosely bound to the crystal environment due to quan- tum-crystal effects. Evidence of such VdW complexes has been obtained by x-ray diffraction on Ne-doped para hydrogen [6]. Similar results have been obtained for other neon-doped hydrogen matrices (normal H2 and D2 , ortho deuterium) [7]. In all those crystals, certain structural characteristics behaved in an un- usual way, in particular, the reflection attributable to hcp hydrogen grew considerably in intensity, the mo- lar volume increased upon doping against natural ex- pectations, the hcp lattice flattened on doping (the c/a ratio decreased). Neon impurities in solid hydro- gen cause a few effects that could be explained only under the assumption that VdW complexes are pres- ent in the diluted alloys. These finding are an unusual low-temperature anomaly in the heat capacity [8], a decrease in the thermal resistance of Ne-doped alloys (instead of an expected increase) compared to pure hydrogen [9], an acceleration of quantum diffusion caused by Ne doping [10], and some others. Behavior of atoms and smaller molecules in solid hydrogen is important in view of the recent idea of us- ing para hydrogen as the isolation matrix material [11]. On the one hand, effect of the quantum-crystal nature of solid hydrogen on optical spectra still re- mains an open issue. On the other hand, the rotational dynamics of molecular impurities differs essentially in classical rare gas and quantum (hydrogen) matrices [12–16]. Presumably, the solid hydrogen matrix is softer, interacting less with the impurity embedded there to. But in classical matrices, impurity molecules (provided they do not interact) rotate quite freely down to very low temperatures. By shear contrast to quite reasonable expectations, rotation of impurity molecules in a quantum-crystal matrix is substantially hindered and even locked into a librational state along particular crystallographic directions [16]. This fact can be easily explained by the extreme compliability. Thus, it was shown [15] that a SF6 molecule in a he- lium matrix has a «coat» of 22 to 24 He atoms so that rotation is greatly hindered even in the superfluid phase of helium. There is another issue in the physics of dilute impu- rities in various matrices, which can be directly solved © N.N. Galtsov, A.I. Prokhvatilov, G.N. Shcherbakov, and M.A. Strzhemechny, 2003 with the aid of diffraction methods. This issue is the changes in the molar volume of the matrix material and the relevant displacement of the closer crystal shells, necessary to be known for crystal-field evalua- tions and corrections. Here we report effects of heavier atomic (Ar and Kr) as well as molecular (N2 and O2) impurities on the structural characteristics of the quantum crystals of para and normal hydrogen. To facilitate under- standing of the experimental findings for H2-based bi- nary systems we give in Table the basic molecular and other parameters of the species involved. Experimental These studies were performed on a powder x-ray diffractometer DRON-3M equipped with a liquid-he- lium cryostat in the Cu K� radiation. Diffractometer control as well as data collection and processing were done using a PC. The sample were grown by quench condensation of gas mixtures of known composition directly to the solid phase onto a flat copper substrate at a temperature of 5 K. The polycrystalline samples were typically 0.1 mm thick with grain sizes within 10–4–10–5 cm. The purity of all the source gases was not worse that 99.9%. The source parahydrogen had an ortho fraction of 0.23%, which is an equilibrium value for liquid-hydrogen temperature. The concentra- tion of the impurity species in the gas mixtures was varied from 0.05% to 5% for Ar, 1% to 10% for Kr and N2, and from 1% to 20% for O2. The error of the impu- rity fraction in the gas sample was 5% of the total amount of the impurity in the gas. X-ray examination was carried out from 5 K up to the melting point of the hydrogen matrix. The temperature was stabilized to within � 0.05 K at every measurement point. Be- cause of a partial overlap of certain reflections from the hydrogen matrix and the impurity solid, the re- sulting lattice parameter error was larger than for pure cryocrystals but did not exceed � 0.04%. If should be noted that, in contrast to what we had on neon-doped hydrogen and deuterium [7], condensa- tion by small spurts (the pressure drop in the mixing chamber being 2–3 mm Hg) of the mixtures with heavier impurities yielded, as expected, strongly stressed samples. This was evidenced from the absence of most of the reflections, while the observed reflec- tion (as a rule, the 002 ones) were broad. To remove stresses, such samples were annealed for 1 to 1.5 hours at a temperature 2 to 3 K below the melting point. After annealing all the reflections appear in x-ray patterns with the intensity ratios close to normal and the line width typical of mixtures. We think that quench condensation onto a substrate at 5 K yields samples with a large amount of lattice defects, finer than usual crystallites, and stresses. The high temper- ature annealing not only removes stresses due to fast crystallization and cooldown but also promotes a ho- mogenization of the impurity distribution. This argu- mentation is corroborated by the results of experi- ments with samples grown on the same 5 K substrate but at a twice as fast rate (with pressure drops of 5–7 Hg mm). Under these conditions, the condensate sur- face was momentarily heated up to the melting point, producing immediately an equilibrium sample so that subsequent annealing did not change the diffraction pattern. Results and discussions As the impurity, two type species have been cho- sen, considerably differing in molecular parameters from one another and from the hydrogen matrix (see Table). This, in particular, concerns the Lennard- Jones parameters and the Debye temperatures. The molar volume differences between impurity and ma- trix were such that doping of the H2 crystal would re- sult in dilatations of opposite signs. Thus, judging from molar volumes (Table) of pure solids, argon and oxygen impurities were expected to contract the hy- drogen lattice whereas krypton and nitrogen, to ex- pand. Table The relevant physical properties of nH2, pH2 as well as impurities Ar, Kr, N2, and O2 Sub- stance Structure at 5 K Lattice parameters, Å Molar volume, cm3/mole L–J parameters nH 2 hcp, P6 3 /mmc a = 3.770, c = 6.162 22.83 � = 36.7 K � = 2.96 Å pH 2 hcp, P6 3 /mmc a = 3.783, c = 6.178 23.06 � = 36.7 K � = 2.96 Å Ne fcc, Fm3m a = 4.464 13.31 � = 36.7 K � = 2.788 Å Ar fcc, Fm3m a = 5.311 22.415 � = 119.8 K � = 3.405 Å Kr fcc, Fm3m a = 5.646 26.932 � = 164.0 K � = 3.624 Å N 2 fcc, Pa3 a = 5.649 27.13 � = 95.1 K � = 3.708 Å O 2 monoclinic, C2/m a = 5.375, b = 3.425, c = 4.242, � = 117.8° 20.57 � = 117.3 K � = 3.817 Å It should be also taken into account that the molar volumes of both molecular solids N2 and O2 are to an Properties of solid hydrogen doped by heavy atomic and molecular impurities Fizika Nizkikh Temperatur, 2003, v. 29, Nos. 9/10 1037 appreciable extent controlled by rather strong aniso- tropic interactions, which tend to compress these so- lids. In addition, the paramagnetic impurities of oxy- gen can essentially affect the conversion process in the normal hydrogen crystals [20–22]. Some of preliminary results of hydrogen doped with Ar, Kr, and N2 have been reported at the 3rd Cryocrystals Conference [23]. Later we carried out a few complementing and more precise experiments on the these above-mentioned systems, in particular, us- ing normal hydrogen as matrix, as well as repeated the entire set of measurements on oxygen-doped normal hydrogen. When embarking on this program, we expected to find evidence of VdW complexes around the impurity particles. However, our analysis shown that there are no unambiguous confirmation of this hypothesis, at least within the content sensitivity (about 1%) of our method. The x-ray patterns contained reflections only from the hcp hydrogen-rich phases (both for normal and para H2) and, when observable, reflections from the lattices of the respective pure substances (Fig. 1), the monoclinic lattice of O2 and fcc lattices of all other crystals. It should be remarked here that the de- termination of the least concentration, at which impu- rity-based phases used to appear, was difficult because for krypton and nitrogen impurities the (111) reflec- tion of the respective cubic phases overlapped in part with the first (100) reflection of H2; for argon and oxy- gen — with second (002) and third (101) reflection of H2 matrix respectively (cf. Fig. 1,a to d). However, in spite of these aggravations we have established that reflections of the pure phases of all the dopants are de- tectable in x-ray patterns when the normal fraction of the impurity in the source gas mixture exceed 0.5%. Typical powder x-ray patterns for hydrogen-based solid mixtures with the four impurity species are shown in Fig. 1. The position and shapes of the H2 re- flections differ from those from pure normal and para hydrogen. This is might be caused by the following factors. Although the actual content (solubility) of all impurities can be substantially less than the lower concentration in gas mixtures (the equilibrium solu- bility of heavy gases in solid hydrogen from thermal conductivity measurements [24,25] is 10–4 or less), these impurities affect perceptibly the structural char- acteristics of doped hydrogen. Usually, when quench depositing pure hydrogen on low temperature, it is difficult to avoid texture [26] with the close packed (00l) basal layers being parallel to the substrate sur- face so that multiple reflections from these planes can only be seen in patterns. In the experiments reported here, even seemingly insignificant amounts of impuri- ties (as low as 0.05% of Ar in the gas mix) essentially suppresses preferable epitaxial crystal growth and the intensity ratios from the hydrogen matrix is close to that from non-textured polycrystalline samples (cf. for example, Fig. 1,a). The part of the impurity com- ponent that was not dissolved in solid hydrogen aggre- gates into a separate phase producing corresponding reflections. Above the hydrogen melting temperature, only impurity-related reflections persist (Fig. 1). The 1038 Fizika Nizkikh Temperatur, 2003, v. 29, Nos. 9/10 N.N. Galtsov, A.I. Prokhvatilov, G.N. Shcherbakov, and M.A. Strzhemechny 26 28 30 32 34 200 400 600 a 14 K 5 K 2� , deg In te n si ty , a rb . u n its (1 0 0 ) (0 0 2 ) (1 1 1 ) A r (1 0 1 ) 26 28 30 32 100 200 300 400 500 600 b 14 K 2 � , deg 5 K In te n si ty , s a rb . u n it (1 0 0 ) (0 0 2 ) (1 1 1 ) K r (1 0 1 ) (2 0 0 )K r 26 28 30 32 200 300 400 500 600 c 14 K 5 K N 2 In te ns ity , a rb . u n its 2�, deg (1 0 0 ), (1 1 1 ) (0 0 2 ) (1 0 1 ) (2 0 0 ) N 2 32 34 36 38 40 42 80 120 160 200 240 dO 2 O 2O 2 5 K In te ns ity , a rb . u n its 2�, deg (1 0 0 ) (0 0 2 ) (1 0 1 ) (1 1 0 ) (2 0 -1 ) (1 1 -1 ) Fig. 1. Typical powder x-ray patterns for solid mixtures: pH2 + 1% Ar (a), nH2 + 2% Kr (b), pH2 + 2% N2 (c) for 5 K and 14 K, nH2 + 2% O2 for 5 K (d). integrated intensity of these reflections is noticeably higher than could be expected from the nominal con- centration in the gas. The width of the reflections af- ter annealing-related hydrogen effusion is consider- ably (2–2.5 times) larger than usual, which suggests a high concentration of impurities (H2) and/or lattice defects. Before analyzing the structure data and giving our arguments, we note that, when considering a molecu- lar impurity in a solid made up of spherical particles (like H2), one should use for scaling not the molar volume of the pure molecular solid (in which strong anisotropic force produce a large negative contribu- tion) but, because in an environment of spherical par- ticles the molecule is stripped of its anisotropic forces, � 3 where � is the Lennard-Jones radius [27]. Argon impurities in para hydrogen increase the vol- ume of the matrix by an amount comparable to those observed in pH2–Ne mixtures (Fig. 2) despite the slightly smaller volume in the bulk Ar compared to pH2. Oxygen impurities also expand the normal hydro- gen lattice, approximately by the same amount as krypton. There is, however, an important difference because oxygen is known to accelerate ortho-para con- version so that during sample preparation and mea- surements oxygen impurities burn out ortho states in their closest environment and, thus, are in fact sur- rounded by virtually pure para hydrogen. Therefore, the net expansion effect due to O2 impurities is less pronounced compared to Kr impurities. Thus, the lat- tice expansion caused by Ar and O2 impurities, both of which are smaller than the size of vacant sites in hy- drogen crystals, may be treated as evidence of hydro- gen-based VdW complexes, similar to those presum- ably found in Ne-doped hydrogen. Nitrogen apparently does not change the volume hydrogen matrix at any temperature up to melting (Fig. 2). Since Lennard-Jones radius of the bare nitro- gen molecule (3.708 Å) is close to the intermolecular distance in solid H2 (3.784 Å for para hydrogen), one can expect an «accurate» nesting for the N2 impurity in H2. Since the central H2–H2 interaction constant does not differ drastically from H2–N2 one, the almost absent effect of N2 does not seem strange. Krypton impurities increase the molar volume of the normal hydrogen matrix (Fig. 3). The fact that the excess volume and its temperature dependence are the same for the nominal gas fractions of 1% and 10% implies that the true Kr concentration in solid H2 must not extend 1%. Our previous evaluation [5] yields an upper limit value of 4%, which does not con- tradict the above reasoning. The very fact of the posi- tive effect of Kr impurities seems to be quite natural because of the larger impurity size. Although Ar and Kr bring about almost equal vol- ume changes, they deform the hexagonal H2 lattice in a different way (Fig. 4): Ar decreases and Kr increases Properties of solid hydrogen doped by heavy atomic and molecular impurities Fizika Nizkikh Temperatur, 2003, v. 29, Nos. 9/10 1039 4 6 8 10 12 14 23.0 23.2 23.4 23.6 23.8 24.0 V , c m 3 /m o le T, K Fig. 2. Temperature dependence of the molar volume of solid para hydrogen with impurities: 0.05% Ar (�); 2% N2 (�); pure pH2 [26] (—); 5% Ar (�); 2% Ne [6] (- - -); 2% Ar (�). 4 6 8 10 12 14 22.8 23.0 23.2 23.4 23.6 23.8 V , c m 3 /m o le T. K Fig. 3. Temperature dependence of molar volume of solid normal hydrogen with impurities: 1% Kr (�); 10% Kr (�); 5% Ne [7] (-�-); pure nH2 [28] (—); 5% O2 (�). 4 6 8 10 12 14 1.628 1.632 1.636 1.640 1.644 c/ a T, K Fig. 4. 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