Next: Abstract
Acta Cryst. (1998). A54, 1028-1033
Structural Phase Transition Nomenclature
Report of an IUCr Working Group on Phase Transition
Nomenclature
J.-C. TOLÉDANO,a
A. M. GLAZER,b
TH. HAHN,c
E. PARTHÉ,d,e
R. S. ROTH,f
R. S. BERRY,g§
R. METSELAARh¶
AND S. C. ABRAHAMSi*
aLaboratoire des Solides Irradiés, Ecole Polytechnique, F-91128
Palaiseau CEDEX, France,
bClarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU,
England,
cInstitut für Kristallographie, RWTH Aachen, D-52056 Aachen, Germany,
dDepartment of Inorganic, Analytical and Applied Chemistry, University of
Geneva, 30 quai Ernest Ansermet, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland,
eInstitute for Mineralogy and Crystallography, Geocenter of the University
of Vienna, A-1090 Vienna, Austria,
fB214 Materials Building, National Institute of Standards and Technology,
Washington, DC 20234, USA,
gDepartment of Chemistry, University of Chicago, 5735 South Ellis Avenue,
Chicago, IL 60637, USA,
hLaboratory for Solid State and Materials Chemistry, Eindhoven University
of Technology, PO Box 513, NL-5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands,
and iPhysics Department, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR 97520, USA.
Email: sca@mind.net
(Received 10 June 1998)
Established 15 February 1994 by the IUCr Commission on Crystallographic
Nomenclature with all original members appointed 21 June 1994 under ground
rules outlined in Acta Cryst. (1979), A35, 1072. The original
Chairman P. Tolédano resigned from the Working Group 13 November 1995.
J.-C. Tolédano was appointed Chairman 20 December 1995. R. L. Snyder
resigned from the Working Group 28 April 1996 and R. S. Roth was appointed
member 28 May 1996. The Report was received by the Commission 19 March 1998
and accepted 22 May 1998.
Chairman.
§ Ex officio, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.
¶ Ex officio, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.

Ex officio, IUCr Commission on Crystallographic Nomenclature.
-
Abstract
-
1. Introduction
-
2. Basis for phase-transition nomenclature
-
3. Six-field phase-transition nomenclature
-
4. Examples
-
4.1. Barium titanate (BaTiO3)
(Hewatt, 1974; Johnson, 1965) (see also Note
added in proof)
-
4.2. Potassium tellurium bromide (K2TeBr6) Abrahams
et al., 1984; Ihringer & Abrahams, 1984)
-
4.3. Lead aluminium fluoride (Pb5Al3F19)
(Andriamampianina et al., 1994; Sarraute et al., 1995, 1996;
Omari et al., 1998)
-
4.4. Lead niobate (PbNb2O6) (Roth, 1959,
1968; Labbé et al., 1977; Mahé, 1967)
-
4.5. Tellurium dioxide (TeO2) (Peercy & Fritz,
1974; Worlton & Beyerlein, 1975; Thomas, 1988)
-
4.6. Dicalcium silicate (Ca2SiO4) (Eysel &
Hahn, 1970)
-
4.7. Iron (Fe) (Donohue, 1974)
-
4.8. Yttrium (Y) (Grosshans et al., 1992)
-
4.9. Caesium boron tetrafluoride (CsBF4) (Richter & Pistorius 1971)
-
5. Discussion
-
References
Next: Abstract
Copyright © 1998 International Union of
Crystallography
IUCr
Webmaster