Dimensional crossover of correlated anion disorder in oxynitride perovskites

A simple crossover from two-dimensional to three-dimensional correlated disorder of O and N atoms on a cubic lattice has been discovered within the Ba1xSrxTaO2N series of perovskite oxynitrides. The crossover is driven by lattice expansion as x decreases, and provides a rapid increase in entropy due to a change from subextensive to extensive configurational entropy regimes.
We thank STFC, UK for support for H. J. and provision of ISIS beamtime, and EPSRC for additional support. This work was also supported by the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO), Spain through Project MAT2017-86616-R, the Severo Ochoa Program SEV-2015-0496, and Fellowship support to AB (MAT2011-24757). We thank the ALBA synchrotron for the provision of beamtime and Prof. Rosa Palacin, Dr Carlos Frontera (ICMAB-CSIC) and Dr F. Fauth (ALBA) for assistance with data collection.