Compressibilities of TbVO4 and DyVO4 Calculated from Spectroscopic Data

Abstract
The compressibilities of TbVO4 and DyVO4 were estimated indirectly from the pressure dependence of the Raman stretching frequencies of the vanadium-oxygen (V-O) bonds, v1( Ag), through an empirical correlation between v1( Ag) and the corresponding bond lengths. Volume compressibilities of 6.71 × 10−3 GPa−1 (bulk modulus 149 GPa) and 6.23 × 10−3 GPa−1 (bulk modulus 160 GPa) were derived for TbVO4 and DyVO4, respectively. This approach provides a straightforward method to estimate the compressibility and equation of state (EOS) of crystals via Raman spectroscopic measurements.