Dimensional crossover of correlated anion disorder in oxynitride perovskites

Chem Commun (Camb). 2018 May 17;54(41):5245-5247. doi: 10.1039/c8cc03462a.

Abstract

A simple crossover from two-dimensional to three-dimensional correlated disorder of O and N atoms on a cubic lattice has been discovered within the Ba1-xSrxTaO2N series of perovskite oxynitrides. The crossover is driven by lattice expansion as x decreases, and provides a rapid increase in entropy due to a change from subextensive to extensive configurational entropy regimes.