Powder Diffraction Data of Polymorphic Phases of Dicesium Cadmium Tetraiodide Cs2CdI4

Abstract

Introduction: Phase transition has been recently observed in Cs2CdI4 (Touchard, Louër, Auffrédic & Louër, 1986). Thermal analysis has shown that the transformation occurs at 122°C. By quenching, the high temperature phase (β) can be stabilized at room temperature. In the present work we report the X-ray diffraction powder data, at room temperature, for the two phases α- and β-Cs2CdI4. Both phases have been indexed automatically by using powder indexing methods.