“…Only triple compositions can be formed with the pyrochlore-type structure e.g. Bi 1.5±δ 3+ M n+ Nb 1.5±δ 5+ O 7-δ (n = 2, 3) [1,2,20,21,[3][4][5][6]10,11,15,19], Bi 2 3+ M 3+ Nb 5+ O 7-δ (M -Cr, In, Ga, Fe, Al, Sc, Sm) [7][8][9][22][23][24] or M 3+ 2 BiNb 5+ O 7 (M -In, Ga) [12]. However, the presence of M cations with ionic radii smaller than (or close to) that of Bi cations is necessary, which, in its turn, occupy not less than 25 % of the cationic sites with M atoms distributed over A 2 O' and B 2 O 6 sublattices [13,14,19,[25][26][27].…”