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We synthesized a series of double perovskites A(2)FeReO(6) (A = Ca, Sr,
Ba) with Curie temperatures above room-temperature. Neutron and X-ray
diffraction analysis have been performed in order to determine the
structural and (local) magnetic properties of these materials. While
Ba2FeReO6 stays cubic over the whole temperature range we examined, the
Sr-compound shows a tetragonal distortion of the perovskite structure
which does not completely vanish up to about 520 K far above T-C.
Ca2FeReO6 has a monoclinic unit cell at high temperatures. Below 400 K a
phase separation in two monoclinic phases with identical cell volume is
observed in neutron scattering. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights
reserved.