Neutron powder diffraction study of the scintillator material ZnWO4
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With a view to the technological applications of ZnWO4 crystals, we have performed Rietveld profile refinement of medium-resolution, time-of-flight, neutron powder diffraction data of synthetic ZnWO4 to improve the quality of the current crystal structure derived from single crystal X-ray techniques that produced a final solution with an R factorof only 10%. The new structural data for ZnWO4, monoclinic space group P2/c, lattice parameters of 0.469263(5), 0.572129(7), 0.492805(5) nm for a, b and c respectively, and a β angle of 90.6321(9) ° with two formula units per unit cell. The ZnO6 octahedra contain 3 pairs of Zn-O bonds of 0.2026(2), 0.2090(2) and 0.2227(3) nm and the WO6 octahedra contain 3 pairs of W-O bonds 0.1789(2), 0.1914(2) and 0.2133(3) nm. These new data confirm the basic structure of ZnWO4 and provide accurate off-centring magnitudes for the Zn and W cations.
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