Raman scattering is used to investigate the room temperature phonons of tetragonal (I4∕m) Sr2CoWO6 and monoclinic (P21∕n) Ca2CoWO6, Sr2CoTeO6, and Ca2CoTeO6 double perovskites. Both tetragonal and monoclinic structures result from small distortions of the Fm3¯m cubic lattice. Therefore, phonons were assigned according to correlations with those observed in the prototype A2B′B″O6 Fm3¯m cubic structure and the internal vibrational modes of the oxygen octahedra. The observed shifts of some vibrations in the A2CoBO6 compounds upon changing either A or B elements are tentatively explained.

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double perovskites have been prepared in polycrystalline form by solid state reaction, in air. These materials have been studied by X-ray diffraction (XRD), neutron powder diffraction (NPD) and magnetic measurements. At room temperature, the crystal structure of Sr 3 Fe 2 TeO 9 is tetragonal, space group I4/m, with a = b = 5.55902(4) A ˚, c = 7.885(1) A ˚, whereas Ba 3 Fe 2 TeO 9 presents a hexagonal lattice, space group P6 3 /mmc, with a = 5.7670(1) A ˚, c = 14.1998(4) A ˚. The structure of Sr 3 Fe 2 TeO 9 , which can ideally be rewritten as Sr 2 Fe(Fe 1/3 Te 2/3 )O 6 , can be described as the result of a single anti-phase tilting of the FeO 6 and (Fe,Te)O 6 octahedra along the c axis, exhibiting a tilting angle of 4.5u at RT. Ba 3 Fe 2 TeO 9 shows a different stacking of the Fe/Te octahedra: the structure is constituted by dimer units of (Fe,Te)O 6 octahedra sharing a face along the c axis; the dimers are connected, sharing corners, by a single layer of FeO 6 octahedra. In both Sr and Ba compounds a certain degree of antisite disordering has been detected, implying the presence of about 15% Te at Fe positions. Magnetic measurements show the onset of ferrimagnetic ordering at relatively high temperatures of 717 and 711 K for the Sr and Ba compounds, respectively; however the magnetization isotherms at 2 K exhibit, for H = 50 kOe, maximum magnetization values close to 0.8 m B f.u. 21 and 0.35 m B f.u. 21 for Sr and Ba compounds respectively, although full saturation is not reached. The extremely weak magnetic scattering contribution observed on the low-temperature NPD patterns for Sr 3 Fe 2 TeO 9 is in contrast with the well-established ferrimagnetic structures observed for other members of the Sr 3 Fe 2 B0O 9 double perovskite series (B0 = U, Mo, W). This distinct behavior is discussed as a function of the chemical nature of the different B0 hexavalent cations.

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double perovskites at 300 K. While SFTO and SFWO crystallize in a tetragonal structure belonging to the I4 / m space with two formulas per unit cell ͑Z=2͒, CFWO crystallizes in a monoclinic structure belonging to the space group P2 1 / n with Z = 2. The observed spectra are very similar to that of the prototype cubic ͑Fm3 ¯m͒ double perovskite, indicating that both the tetragonal and monoclinic structures result from small distortions of the cubic cell. The assignment of the optical phonons follows that given for the prototype Fm3 ¯m double perovskites.

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