E. Kroumova et al., Ferroelectric-paraelectric phase transitions with no group-supergroup relation between the space groups of both phases?, ACT CRYST B, 57, 2001, pp. 599-601
The structures Of Sr-3(FeF6)(2), beta -NbO2, TlBO2 and CrOF3, previously re
ported as possible ferroelectrics with no group-supergroup relation between
the ferroelectric and the paraelectric symmetries, have been carefully stu
died. We could not confirm any structural pseudosymmetry with respect to a
space group which is not a supergroup of their room- temperature polar spac
e group. In all cases, pseudosymmetry was indeed detected, but only for non
polar supergroups of the actual space groups of the structures. In this sen
se., the four compounds are possible ferroelectrics. but fulfilling the usu
al group-supergroup relation between the phase symmetries.