TY - JOUR
T1 - Coexistence of ferromagnetism and spin glass freezing in the site-disordered kagome ferrite SrSn2Fe4O11
AU - Shlyk, Larysa
AU - Strobel, S.
AU - Farmer, B.
AU - De Long, L. E.
AU - Niewa, R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Author(s).
PY - 2018/5/1
Y1 - 2018/5/1
N2 - Single-crystal x-ray diffraction refinements indicate SrSn2Fe4O11 crystallizes in the hexagonal R-type ferrite structure with non-centrosymmetric space group P63mc and lattice parameters a = 5.9541(2) Å, c = 13.5761(5) Å, Z = 2 (R(F) = 0.034). Octahedrally coordinated sites are randomly occupied by Sn and Fe; whereas tetrahedrally coordinated sites are exclusively occupied by Fe, whose displacement from ideal trigonal-bipyramidal coordination causes the loss of inversion symmetry. DC magnetization data indicate SrSn2Fe4O11 single crystals undergo ferro- or ferri-magnetic order below a transition temperature TC = 630 K with very low coercive fields Hc⊥ = 0.27 Oe and Hc// = 1.5 Oe at 300 K, for applied fields perpendicular and parallel to the c-axis, respectively. The value for TC is exceptionally high, and the coercive fields exceptionally low, among the known R-type ferrites. Enhanced coercivity and thermomagnetic hysteresis suggest the onset of short-range, spin glass order occurs below Tf = 35 K. Optical measurements indicate a band gap of 0.8 eV, consistent with wide-gap semiconducting behavior and a previously established empirical correlation between the semiconducting gap and TC for R-type ferrites based upon Ru.
AB - Single-crystal x-ray diffraction refinements indicate SrSn2Fe4O11 crystallizes in the hexagonal R-type ferrite structure with non-centrosymmetric space group P63mc and lattice parameters a = 5.9541(2) Å, c = 13.5761(5) Å, Z = 2 (R(F) = 0.034). Octahedrally coordinated sites are randomly occupied by Sn and Fe; whereas tetrahedrally coordinated sites are exclusively occupied by Fe, whose displacement from ideal trigonal-bipyramidal coordination causes the loss of inversion symmetry. DC magnetization data indicate SrSn2Fe4O11 single crystals undergo ferro- or ferri-magnetic order below a transition temperature TC = 630 K with very low coercive fields Hc⊥ = 0.27 Oe and Hc// = 1.5 Oe at 300 K, for applied fields perpendicular and parallel to the c-axis, respectively. The value for TC is exceptionally high, and the coercive fields exceptionally low, among the known R-type ferrites. Enhanced coercivity and thermomagnetic hysteresis suggest the onset of short-range, spin glass order occurs below Tf = 35 K. Optical measurements indicate a band gap of 0.8 eV, consistent with wide-gap semiconducting behavior and a previously established empirical correlation between the semiconducting gap and TC for R-type ferrites based upon Ru.
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U2 - 10.1063/1.5006652
DO - 10.1063/1.5006652
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85040057709
SN - 2158-3226
VL - 8
JO - AIP Advances
JF - AIP Advances
IS - 5
M1 - 055708
ER -