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Single phase charge ordered stoichiometric CaFe(3)O(5) with commensurate and incommensurate trimeron ordering

Mixed-valent transition metal compounds display complex structural, electronic and magnetic properties which can often be exquisitely tuned. Here the charge-ordered state of stoichiometric CaFe(3)O(5) is probed using neutron powder diffraction, Monte Carlo simulation and symmetry analysis. Magnetic...

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Autores principales: Cassidy, Simon J., Orlandi, Fabio, Manuel, Pascal, Clarke, Simon J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6889228/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31792221
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13450-5
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Sumario:Mixed-valent transition metal compounds display complex structural, electronic and magnetic properties which can often be exquisitely tuned. Here the charge-ordered state of stoichiometric CaFe(3)O(5) is probed using neutron powder diffraction, Monte Carlo simulation and symmetry analysis. Magnetic ordering is dominated by the formation of ferromagnetic Fe(3+)–Fe(2+)–Fe(3+) trimers which are evident above the magnetic ordering transition. Between T(N )= 289 K and 281 K an incommensurate magnetically ordered phase develops due to magnetic frustration, but a spin Jahn-Teller distortion lifts the frustration and enables the magnetic ordering to lock in to a charge-ordered commensurate state at lower temperatures. Stoichiometric CaFe(3)O(5) exhibits single phase behaviour throughout and avoids the phase separation into two distinct crystallographic phases with different magnetic structures and Fe valence distributions reported recently, which likely occurs due to partial Fe(2+) for Ca(2+) substitution. This underlines the sensitivity of the magnetism and chemistry of these mixed-valent systems to composition.