Symmetry-breaking degrees of freedom in molecular perovskites

Thesis

Perovskite oxides are functionally and structurally very diverse materials largely due to their abundance of symmetry-lowering degrees of freedom. A related and more nascent area of research is molecular perovskites: systems where at least one of the constituent ions is a polyatomic species. As a result of the topological congruence, molecular perovskites can often be understood in terms of the concepts developed for their inorganic congeners; yet the presence of polyatomic c...

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Authors: Boström, H

• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: perovskites; coordination polymers; symmetry
• Subjects: Crystallography