A neutron diffraction study of structural and magnetic transformations in AFeO(2) (A = K, Rb and Cs)

作者:Sheptyakov D*; Ali N Z; Jansen M
来源:Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter , 2010, 22(42): 426001.
DOI:10.1088/0953-8984/22/42/426001

摘要

In continuation of our recent x-ray study of the structural phase transitions in the AFeO(2) (A = K, Rb, Cs) family, we have systematically investigated the respective structural and magnetic phase transitions by neutron powder diffraction. While the temperatures of the first-order structural phase transitions are strongly different for the three compounds (similar to 1003, similar to 737 and similar to 350 K for A = K, Rb, Cs) and systematically decrease with increasing ionic radius of the A-cation, the magnetic transition temperatures in all three compounds have been found to be almost the same-slightly above 1000 K. The magnetic ordering type is similar in all three compounds-antiferromagnetic ordering of magnetic Fe3+ ions within the system of the three-dimensional Fe-O-Fe linkages such that the Fe-Fe exchange between the nearest neighboring ions is always antiferromagnetic. The directions of magnetic Fe moments were found to be parallel to the crystallographic axis c in RbFeO2 and CsFeO2 and parallel to the axis b in KFeO2 in notations of their low-temperature orthorhombic modifications.

  • 出版日期2010-10-27