Results of X-ray powder diffraction, neutron powder diffraction, electron m
icrodiffraction, and convergent beam electron diffraction (CBED) studies ar
e presented to show that the space group of (Sr1-xCax)TiO3 (SCT) in the com
position range 0.35 < x less than or equal to 0.55 cannot be Cmcm. The corr
ect space groups are Pbcm for 0.35 < x less than or equal to 0.40 and Pbnm
for 0.40 < x less than or equal to 0.55. The analysis of powder XRD data re
veals that the structure of SCT is noncubic for x greater than or equal to
0.06. It is shown that four different types of orthorhombic phases appear i
n the SCT system with increasing Ca2+ content. (C) 2001 Academic Press.