Abstract
Strontium lanthanum aluminate (SrLaAlO4) belongs to a wide family of compounds with the general formula ABCO4 (where A denotes an alkaline earth cation: B denotes Y. Sc or a trivalent rare earth element and C denotes Al, Ga or a transition metal ion). This material crystallises in the perovskite phase, with tetragonal K2NiF4 structure having space group 14/mmm. The structure is composed of CO6 layers in the ab plane. The C cations are surrounded by six oxygens and sit in slightly distorted octahedral sites. Between these layers, the A cations and trivalent B cations are randomly distributed in nine co-ordinated sites of C4v symmetry. The random distribution of Sr2+ and La3+ ions leads to a structural disorder that causes inhomogeneous broadening of the spectral lines of rare-earth ions doped into these crystals.
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