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DOI: 10.1039/A708290H (Paper) Reference Section for: J. Mater. Chem., 1998, 8, 1033-1038

Synthesis and crystal structure of the distorted perovskite Sr0.97NbO3 determined by high resolution powder neutron diffraction

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Nianhua Peng, John T. S. Irvine and Alexander G. Fitzgerald

Abstract

A new perovskite related Sr0.97NbO3 phase has been synthesized. Although both powder X-ray diffraction and selected area electron diffraction studies suggest a primitive cubic perovskite structure with ap ≈4.023 Å, high resolution powder neutron diffraction reveals a subtle lattice distortion from cubic symmetry. The detailed crystal structure has been refined with the orthorhombic space group P21212 with a=5.6881 Å, b=5.6821 Å and c=8.0566 Å. The structure is built up from two types of NbO6 octahedra, one elongated, the other compressed along c. The lattice distortion from cubic symmetry has been found to mainly originate from tilting of NbO6 octahedra, whereas the √2ap ×√2ap ×2ap superstructure arises from ordering of alternate elongated and compressed octahedra.

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