Title
Ferrimagnetism as a consequence of cation ordering in the perovskite LaSr2Cr2SbO9
Date Issued
01 April 2017
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Universidad de Amberes
Publisher(s)
Academic Press Inc.
Abstract
A polycrystalline sample of LaSr2Cr2SbO9 has been synthesised using a standard ceramic method and characterized by x-ray and neutron diffraction, magnetometry and electron microscopy. The perovskite-related compound crystallises in the triclinic space group I1̅ with unit cell parameters of a=5.5344(6) Å, b=5.5562(5) Å, c=7.8292(7) Å, α=89.986(12)°, β=90.350(5)° and γ=89.926(9)° at room temperature. The two crystallographically-distinct, six-coordinate cation sites are occupied by Cr3+ and Sb5+ in ratios of 0.868(2):0.132(2) and 0.462(2):0.538(2). Ac and dc magnetometry revealed that LaSr2Cr2SbO9 is ferrimagnetic below 150 K with a magnetisation of ~1.25 µB per formula unit in 50 kOe at 5 K. Neutron diffraction showed that the cations on the two sites order in a G-type arrangement with a mean Cr3+ moment of 2.17(1) µB at 5 K, consistent with a magnetisation of 1.32 µB per formula unit.
Start page
96
End page
103
Volume
248
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Química inorgánica, Química nuclear
Biología celular, Microbiología
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85011665645
Source
Journal of Solid State Chemistry
ISSN of the container
00224596
Source funding
Diamond Light Source
Sponsor(s)
Experiments at the ISIS Pulsed Neutron and Muon Source were supported by the STFC. We are grateful to I. da Silva for the assistance provided at ISIS and to the EPSRC for financial support under Grant EP/M018954/1. We also thank Diamond Light Source Ltd (EE13284) for the award of beamtime.
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