N. Igawa et al., CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE OF METASTABLE TETRAGONAL ZIRCONIA BY NEUTRON POWDERDIFFRACTION STUDY, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 76(10), 1993, pp. 2673-2676
The crystal structure of metastable tetragonal zirconia prepared by th
e alkoxide method without any dopant has been examined by neutron diff
raction at room temperature. The lattice parameters of this sample wer
e a = 0.3591 +/- 0.0001 nm and c = 0.5169 +/- 0.0001 nm. The oxygen io
ns are shifted from their lattice sites in the [001] direction with a
magnitude of DELTA/c = 0.046 +/- 0.004.