Study of crystal structure at high temperature phase in KIO3 crystal by synchrotron powder X-ray diffraction

The accurate crystal structure of the I-phase in KIO3 crystal has been obtained at 530 K, for the first time, by the MEM/Rietveld analysis from high-energy X-ray powder-diffraction data. The crystal structure of the I-phase is the rhombohedral perovskite structure (space group R3m; Z=1). The MEM charge-density distributions reveal that the shorter I-O bond exhibits a covalent bonding character and others (I-K, K-O and longer I-O bonds) an ionic