Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2013
Thirteen isotypic tellurates having the stoichiometries MIBaNbTe2O9 and BaNbTe2O9, with MI = Li,Na,K,Rb,Ag and MII = Mg,Ca,Sr,Ba,Cu,Zn,Cd,Pb, have been synthesized by solid state reaction. Single crystals of KBaNbTe2O9 were obtained. The compounds crystallize in the orthorhombic space group P212121 [19]. Unit-cell parameters for the 13 compounds and powder diffraction patterns for three representative compounds, KBaNbTe2O9, Ba1.5NbTe2O9 and Cd0.5BaNbTe2O9, are given.