Reply to the ‘Comment on the paper “Structural, dielectric, thermal and electrical characteristics of lead-free double perovskite: BiHoZnCeO6” by M. Padhy, S.K. Dehury, R.N.P. Choudhary, and P.G.R. Achary, and published in Applied Physics A (2020) 126:655’

Double pervoskite BiHoZnCeO6 (BHZCO) has been synthesized by the cost-effective solid state reaction method. It is characterized by a combination of techniques including powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD), dielectric, thermal analysis, and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The fundamental structural symmetry and the cell parameter refinement for the BHZCO is investigated by analyzing the PXRD data with the help of widely used “MAUD” software. As per the PXRD-analysis, the Fig. 1a and b of the published paper Applied Physics A (2020) 126:655, clearly shows that it crystallizes with an orthorhombic crystal lattice with space group of Pca21, whose profile resembles with another bismuth-based double pervoskite Bi2WO6; crystallography open database (COD) ID: 2,108,252. However, in the CP paper, the author claims that BHZCO should have the cubic Fm-3m crystal structure, surprisingly claims that the phase is CeO2:Bi,Ho,Zn with unknown amount of dopants. Hence, in the present communication attempts have been made to compare both the cell structures for the BHZCO.