Mode Crystallography Analysis through the Structural Phase Transition and Magnetic Critical Behavior of the Lacunar Spinel GaMo4Se8

© 2021 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society.

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Veröffentlicht in:Chemistry of materials : a publication of the American Chemical Society. - 1998. - 33(2021), 14 vom: 27. Juli, Seite 5718-5729
1. Verfasser: Routledge, Kieran (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Vir, Praveen, Cook, Nicholas, Murgatroyd, Philip A E, Ahmed, Sheikh J, Savvin, Stanislav N, Claridge, John B, Alaria, Jonathan
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2021
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Chemistry of materials : a publication of the American Chemical Society
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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520 |a In the lacunar spinels, with the formula AB4X8, transition-metal ions form tightly bound B4 clusters resulting in exotic physical properties such as the stabilization of Néel-type skyrmion lattices, which hold great promise for energy-efficient switching devices. These properties are governed by the symmetry of these compounds with distortion of the parent noncentrosymmetric F4̅3m space group to the polar R3m, with recent observation of a coexisting Imm2 low-temperature phase. In this study, through powder neutron diffraction, we further confirm that a metastable Imm2 coexists with the R3m phase in GaMo4Se8 and we present its structure. By applying the mode crystallography approach to the distortions together with anisotropic microstrain broadening analysis, we postulate that the formation origin of the minority Imm2 phase stems from the high compressive stress observed in the R3m phase. Bond valence sum analysis also suggests a change in electronic configuration in the transition to Imm2 which could have implications on the electrical properties of the compound. We further establish the nature of the magnetic phase transition using critical exponent analysis obtained from single-crystal magnetization measurements which shows a mixture of tricritical mean-field and 3D Heisenberg behavior [β = 0.22(4), γ = 1.19(1), and δ = 6.42(1)]. Magnetoentropic mapping performed on a single crystal reveals the signature of a positive entropy region near the magnetic phase transition which corresponds to the skyrmion phase field observed in a polycrystalline sample 
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