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Thermochromic phase transition was studied in CuMoO4 using the Cu and Mo K-edge x-ray absorption spectroscopy in the temperature range of 10–300 K. The hysteretic behavior has been evidenced from the temperature dependence of the pre-edge shoulder intensity at the Mo K-edge, indicating that the transition from brownish-red γ-CuMoO4 to green α-CuMoO4 occurs in the temperature range of 230–280 K upon heating, whereas the α-to-γ transition occurs between 200 and 120 K upon cooling. Such behavior of the pre-edge shoulder at the Mo K-edge correlates with the change of molybdenum coordination between distorted tetrahedral in α-CuMoO4 and distorted octahedral in γ-CuMoO4. This result has been supported by ab initio full-multiple-scattering x-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) calculations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Photoluminescence and excitation spectra of microcrystalline and nanocrystalline nickel tungstate (NiWO4) were measured using UV-VUV synchrotron radiation source. The origin of the bands is interpreted using comparative analysis with isostructural ZnWO4 tungstate and based on the results of recent first-principles band structure calculations. The influence of the local atomic structure relaxation and of Ni2+; intra-ion d-d transitions on the photoluminescence band intensity are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Thermochromic phase transition was studied in CuMoO4 using the Cu and Mo K-edge x-ray absorption spectroscopy in the temperature range of 10–300 K. The hysteretic behavior has been evidenced from the temperature dependence of the pre-edge shoulder intensity at the Mo K-edge, indicating that the transition from brownish-red γ-CuMoO4 to green α-CuMoO4 occurs in the temperature range of 230–280 K upon heating, whereas the α-to-γ transition occurs between 200 and 120 K upon cooling. Such behavior of the pre-edge shoulder at the Mo K-edge correlates with the change of molybdenum coordination between distorted tetrahedral in α-CuMoO4 and distorted octahedral in γ-CuMoO4. This result has been supported by ab initio full-multiple-scattering x-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) calculations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Photoluminescence and excitation spectra of microcrystalline and nanocrystalline nickel tungstate (NiWO4) were measured using UV-VUV synchrotron radiation source. The origin of the bands is interpreted using comparative analysis with isostructural ZnWO4 tungstate and based on the results of recent first-principles band structure calculations. The influence of the local atomic structure relaxation and of Ni2+; intra-ion d-d transitions on the photoluminescence band intensity are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]