Modulated structure of potassium sodium strontium barium niobates (KNSBN): harmonic solution

Autor: Dominik Schaniel, Audrey Surmin, Pierre Fertey, Theo Woike
Přispěvatelé: Laboratoire de Cristallographie et modélisation des matériaux minéraux et biologiques (LCM3B), Université Henri Poincaré - Nancy 1 (UHP)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Rok vydání: 2006
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Zdroj: HAL
Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science
Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science, International Union of Crystallography, 2006, pp.228-235
ISSN: 0108-7681
DOI: 10.1107/s0108768106001510
Popis: The structures of two specimens of the (K1 − y Na y )2F − 2(Sr x Ba1 − x )2 − F Nb2O6 family (KNSBN) have been solved and refined (x I = 0.6, y I = 0.45, F I = 1.07 and x II = 0.72, y II = 0.45, F II = 1.08). The KNSBN compounds appear to be incommensurately modulated, as described in a five-dimensional superspace approach with the tetragonal P4bm (pp1/2, p − p1/2) superspace group. Their modulation wavevectors are almost independent of the composition. The description of the modulation is restricted to first-order harmonics in order to limit the number of refined parameters. The modulation mainly affects the positions of the O atoms and their displacements depend on the Sr/Ba ratio. The structural models for the two compounds are not only almost identical, but also analoguous to the structural model of the Sr x Ba1 − x Nb2O6 parent compound: doping with K+ and Na+ cations has no significant influence on the incommensurate modulation, contrary to the strong dependence observed for the physical properties.
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