The magnetic phase diagram and large reversible room-temperature magnetocaloric effect in antiperovskite compounds Zn1−xSnxCFe3 (0≤x≤1) J. Appl. Phys. 112, 063904 (2012) Convergent beam electron-diffraction investigation of lattice mismatch and static disorder in GaAs/GaAs1−xNx intercalated GaAs/GaAs1−xNx:H heterostructures Appl. Phys. Lett. 101, 111912 (2012) The role of structural properties on deep defect states in Cu2ZnSnS4 studied by photoluminescence spectroscopy Appl. Phys. Lett. 101, 102102 (2012) Electronic, structural, and elastic properties of metal nitrides XN (X = Sc, Y): A first principle study AIP Advances 2, 032163 (2012) Magnetic tri-axial grain alignment in misfit-layered bismuth-based cobaltitesThe crystal structure and property changes of sodium bismuth titanate (Na 0.5 Bi 0.5 TiO 3 , NBT) piezoelectric ceramics are reported as a function of La modification (0.5-2.0 at. %) and increasing temperature using high resolution x-ray diffraction, permittivity, depolarization, and polarization and strain hysteresis measurements. La substitution is found to decrease the depolarization temperature of NBT (e.g., 1.5 at. % La substitution lowers the depolarization temperature by 60 C relative to the unmodified composition) with little impact on the room temperature polarization and strain hysteresis. The room temperature structures of the various NBT compositions were modeled using a mixture of the monoclinic Cc space group and the cubic Pm 3m phase, where the Pm 3m phase is used to model local regions in the material which do not obey the long range Cc space group. With increasing La substitution, the lattice parameter distortions associated with the Cc phase approached that of the prototypical cubic unit cell and the fraction of the Pm 3m phase increased. The relationship between these crystallographic changes and the depolarization behavior of La-modified NBT is discussed.