International Center for Young Scientists (ICYS), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Namiki 1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan. TSUJIMOTO.Yoshihiro@nims.go.jp
Abstract:
The first Ruddlesden-Popper type layered cobalt oxyfluoride, Sr(2)CoO(3)F, has been synthesized under a pressure of 6 GPa at 1700 °C and shown to adopt a K(2)NiF(4)-type structure with distorted square pyramidal coordination around Co and with O/F disorder at the apical sites.