De Gruyter, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials, 3(215), p. 145-147, 2000
DOI: 10.1524/zkri.2000.215.3.145
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Owing to some recent confusion in the literature the room temperature structure of LaAlO3was redetermined by X-ray diffraction using a Guinier camera equipped with an image plate system. Different samples of pure LaAlO3as well as a sample doped with 0.2 percent by weight ThO2were used in the investigation. The space group of the structure, which is a rhombohedrally distorted perovskite structure, due to a rotation of the oxygen octahedra, is clearly R3c. The lattice constants of pure LaAlO3are a = 5.3655(2) Å and c = 13.112(1) Å with a c/a-ratio of 2.444(1). The influence of doping on the lattice parameters and the tilting of the O6-octahedron is discussed.