Elucidating 2D Charge-Density-Wave Atomic Structure in an MX-Chain by the 3D-ΔPair Distribution Function Method

Laurent Guérin; Takefumi Yoshida; Edoardo Zatterin; Arkadiy Simonov; Dmitry Chernyshov; Hiroaki Iguchi; Bertrand Toudic; Shinya Takaishi; Masahiro Yamashita

doi:10.1002/cphc.202200120

Elucidating 2D Charge-Density-Wave Atomic Structure in an MX-Chain by the 3D-ΔPair Distribution Function Method

Chemphyschem. 2022 Mar 18;23(6):e202200120. doi: 10.1002/cphc.202200120. Epub 2022 Mar 4.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Univ Rennes, CNRS, PR (Institut de Physique de Rennes) - UMR 6251, 35000, Rennes, France.
² Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, 6-3 Aramaki-Aza-Aoba, Aoba-Ku, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan.
³ ESRF-The European Synchrotron, BM31, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, Grenoble, 38000, France.
⁴ Materials Department, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1-5/10, 8093, Zürich, Switzerland.
⁵ Swiss-Norwegian BeamLines at the ESRF, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, Grenoble, 38000, France.
⁶ School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300350, China.

PMID: 35244957
DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202200120

Abstract

The front cover artwork is provided by Prof. Masahiro Yamashita's group at Tohoku University and designed by Dr. Laurent Guérin at University of Rennes 1. The image illustrates that the atomic structure of a 2D charge density wave can be revealed although the planes associated to this local 2D order are randomly stacked preventing the use of conventional structure determination techniques. Read the full text of the Research Article at 10.1002/cphc.202100857.