Research Article

Investigation of the Heterovalent Substitution Cadmium for Lanthanum in Molybdate La2MoO6

Table 2

Rietveld structure refinement of the Lа2-xCdxMoO6-x/2.

Content Cd (x)0.50.6

Impurity phase2MoO6, CdOCdO
Lattice parameters a, (Å)11.2170(4)11.2004(6)

Atom coordinates, (x, y, z)
La1, 12(e)0.0097(7); ¼; ¼0.0083(8); ¼; ¼
(La/Cd)2, 8(c)0; 0; 00; 0; 0
Mo/Cd, 12(d)0; ¾; ¼0; ¾; ¼
O1, 16(f)0.110(3); 0.110(3); 0.110(3)0.108(3); 0.108(3); 0.108(3)
O2, 48(h)0.577(3); 0.371(2); 0.844(3)0.574(2); 0.375(2); 0.850(3)

Position occupancy
(La/Cd)2La 4; Cd 4La 2.93; Cd 5.07
Mo/CdMo 10.8(4); Cd 1.33Mo 10.7(2); Cd 1.33

Reliability factors
Rp8.7610.3
Rwp11.714.3
Rexp9.3312.65
χ21.571.28
RB3.495.51
Rf4.446.36