BiScO<sub>3</sub>:  Centrosymmetric BiMnO<sub>3</sub>-type Oxide

Alexei А. Belik, Satoshi Iikubo, Katsuaki Kodama, Naoki Igawa, Shin‐ichi Shamoto, Makoto Maie, Takuro Nagai, Yoshio Matsui, S. Yu. Stefanovich, Bogdan I. Lazoryak,

Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2005 · 132 citations · 16 references

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Abstract

With neutron powder diffraction, electron diffraction, and second-harmonic generation, we have shown that BiScO3 has a structure closely related to that of multiferroic BiMnO3, but BiScO3 crystallizes in the centrosymmetric space group of C2/c. These results bring up a question about the origin of ferroelectricity in BiMnO3. BiScO3 may serve as a model system to understand the role of Mn3+ ions in the ferroelectricity of BiMnO3.

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