“…Oxides and fluorides comprise the vast majority of perovskite compounds (Goodenough & Longo, 1970), but the perovskite structure is found for many combinations of cations and anions. Chlorides (Brynestad, Yakel & Smith, 1966;Horowitz, Amit, Makovsky, Ben Dor & Kalman, 1982), bromides (Knochenmuss, Reber, Rajasekharan & GEidel, 1986), hydrides (Messer, Eastman, Mers & Maeland, 1964), oxynitrides (Bacher et al, 1988) and sulfides (Clearfield, 1963;Rodier & Laruelle, 1970;No~l, Padiou & Prigent, 1975) are all known with the perovskite structure. Since the perovskite structure can accommodate such a wide variety of ions, the physical properties of perovskite compounds are wonderfully diverse.…”