Bismuth vanadate: a high-pressure, high-temperature crystallographic study of the ferroelastic-paraelastic transition.

Lattice dimensions of bismuth vanadate have been determined under 37 different high-pressure or high-temperature conditions or a combination of these conditions. New high-pressure, high-temperature, single-crystal x-ray techniques were used to bracket the reversible monoclinic (ferroelastic) to tetragonal (paraelastic) transition.