A study of the crystal structures and the phase transitions of the ordered double perovskites Sr{sub 2}ScSbO{sub 6} and Ca{sub 2}ScSbO{sub 6}
- Departamento de Fisica de la Materia Condensada, Universidad del Pais Vasco, E-48080 Bilbao (Spain)
- Fisika Aplikatua II Saila, Zientzia eta Teknologia Fakultatea, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, P.O.Box 644, Bilbao 48080 (Spain)
The crystal structures and phase transitions of the two ordered double perovskites Sr{sub 2}ScSbO{sub 6} and Ca{sub 2}ScSbO{sub 6} were studied using conventional X-ray and neutron powder-diffraction methods. The crystal structures of both compounds have the P2{sub 1}/n space group symmetry at room temperature, resulting from Sc/Sb ordering. The evolution with temperature of the structure of the Sr containing compound shows the presence of three phase transitions with the following sequence: P2{sub 1}/n{yields}I2/m{yields}I4/m{yields}Fm3{sup Macron }m, at about 400, 560 and 650 K, respectively. The smaller size of Ca cation, with respect to that of Sr cation, leads to a large distortion of Ca{sub 2}ScSbO{sub 6} at room temperature. This fact in turn causes that the Ca containing compound shows only the first phase transition from P2{sub 1}/n to I2/m at high temperature at about 1440 K. The analysis of the phase transitions and the refinements have done using the symmetry-adapted modes and the tools of the Bilbao Crystallographic Server. - Graphical abstract: Representation of the new structure resulting from the coupling of the unidimensional GM{sup 4+} and X{sup 3+} modes with the a{sup +}b{sup -}b{sup -} tilting scheme associated to P2{sub 1}/n and the temperature evolution of the amplitudes of the GM{sup 1+}, GM{sup 3+}, GM{sup 4+} and GM{sup 5+} modes of I2/m and I4/m space groups obtained from the NPD data of Sr{sub 2}ScSbO{sub 6}. Highlights: Black-Right-Pointing-Pointer Study of two compounds of the antimony double perovskite family. Black-Right-Pointing-Pointer Determination of the structures at room temperature. Black-Right-Pointing-Pointer Determination of high-temperature phase transitions by X-ray and neutron powder diffraction. Black-Right-Pointing-Pointer Using the symmetry-adapted modes to study the phase transitions.
- OSTI ID:
- 22131132
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Solid State Chemistry, Vol. 192; Other Information: Copyright (c) 2012 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0022-4596
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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