A 12R-type hexagonal perovskite, Ba(Ti
1/2Mn
1/2)O
3, has been prepared by a mixed oxideroute at 1250
C in air and the crystal structure established by a
joint Rietveld refinementof powder X-ray and neutron diffraction data at room temperature [space group
Rm,
a =5.69135(2) Å, and
c = 27.91860(15) Å]. The structure consists of a (hhcc)
3 stacking sequenceof BaO
3 close-packed layers along the
c-axis with face sharing M
3O
12 trimers connected bya vertex sharing octahedron. Partial ordering of the Ti
+IV and Mn
+IV ions occurs in the B-sitesubstructure; Mn
+IV ions occupy the central octahedral site in the trimers, Ti
+IV ions occupythe octahedral site in the vertex sharing octahedron, and both ions occupy the outeroctahedral site of the trimers. Impedance spectroscopy and microwave dielectric resonancemeasurements on dense pellets (>97% of the theoretical X-ray density) show the titlecompound to be a modest dielectric insulator at room temperature with high permittivity,
r ~ 45 (at both radio and microwave frequencies); a modest unloaded quality factor, Q
u ~2026 (at ~5.75 GHz); and a temperature coefficient of resonant frequency, TC
f = -4 ppmK
-1.