Polycrystalline samples of
general composition La
1.33-xNa
3xTi
2O
6 were prepared by the "liquid mix"technique. The structural analysis carried out from different techniques (XRPD, ED, HREM, and NPD)evidences that these perovskites under
go phase transformations that seem to be mainly related to thenumber of A-vacancies. For hi
gh de
grees of substitution,
x, that imply low number of vacant A-sites, arandom distribution of Na
+ and La
3+ ions in these sites is observed. When this number increases (for
x= 0.16 and 0.11) two different cells are adopted, in which the A-cations are ordered by layers alon
g onedirection, whose dimensions are
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ap (space
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ap(space
group
Cmmm), respectively. These structural chan
ges are analyzed on the basis of the
group-sub
group relations and the tiltin
g of the TiO
6 octahedra.