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Chapter 5: Multiferroics

December 24, 2015
Author(s)
William D. Ratcliff, Jeffrey W. Lynn
Multiferroics are insulating materials that are simultaneously magnetically ordered and ferroelectric. From a fundamental standpoint it is interesting to understand the properties and coupling of these two disparate types of order. These materials could

One Dimensional(1D)-to-2D Crossover of Spin Correlations in the 3D Magnet ZnMn 2 O 4

December 8, 2015
Author(s)
Steven M.T. Disseler, Ying Chen, S. Yeo, G. Gasparovic, P.M.B. Piccoli, A. J. Schultz, Yiming Qiu, Qingzhen Huang, S.-W. Cheong, William D. Ratcliff
We report on the intriguing evolution of the dynamical spin correlations of the frustrated spinel ZnMn 2O 4. Inelastic neutron scattering and magnetization studies reveal that the dynamical correlations at high temperatures are 1D. At lower temperature

Multiferroicity in Doped Hexagonal LuFeO 3

August 27, 2015
Author(s)
Steven M. Disseler, Xuan Luo, Bin Gao, Yoon Seok Oh, Rongwei Hu, Yazhong Wang, Dylan Quintana, Alexander Zhang, Qingzhen Huang, June W. Lau, Rick L. Paul, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Sang-Wook Cheong, William D. Ratcliff
The hexagonal phase of LuFeO 3 is a rare example of a multiferroic material possessing a weak ferromagnetic moment, which is predicted to be switchable by an electric field. We stabilize this structure in bulk form through Mn and Sc doping, and determine

Magnetic Structure and Ordering of Multiferroic Hexagonal LuFeO 3

May 29, 2015
Author(s)
Steven M. Disseler, Julie A. Borchers, Charles M. Brooks, Julia A. Mundy, Jarrett A. Moyer, Daniel A. Hillsberry, Eric L. Thies, Dmitri A. Tenne, John Heron, Megan Holtz, James D. Clarkson, Gregory M. Stiehl, Peter Schiffer, David A. Muller, Darrell G. Schlom, William D. Ratcliff
We report on the magnetic structure and ordering of hexagonal LuFeO 3 films of variable thickness grown by molecular-beam epitaxy (MBE) on YSZ (111) and Al 2O 3 (0001) substrates. These crystalline films exhibit long-range structural uniformity dominated

Change in the Magnetic Structure of (Bi,Sm)FeO 3 Thin Films at the Morphotropic Phase Boundary Probed by Neutron Diffraction

November 1, 2014
Author(s)
Shingo Maruyama, Varatharajan Anbusathaiah, Amy Fennell, Mechthild Enderle, Ichiro Takeuchi, William D. Ratcliff
We report on the evolution of the magnetic structure of BiFeO 3 thin films grown on SrTiO 3 substrates as a function of Sm doping. We determined the magnetic structure using neutron diffration. We found that as Sm increases, the magnetic structure evolves

Complex Structures of Different CaFe 2 As 2 Samples

February 18, 2014
Author(s)
Bayrammurad Saparov, Claudia Cantoni, Minghu Pan, Thomas C. Hogan, William D. Ratcliff, Stephen D. Wilson, Katharina Fritsch, Bruce D. Gaulin, Athena S. Sefat
We use temperature-dependent X-ray and neutron diffraction, low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy, and room-temperature scanning-transmission electron-microscopy, to investigate the interplay between magnetism and crystal structures in three CaFe

Double-Focusing Thermal Triple-Axis Spectrometer at the NCNR

February 2, 2012
Author(s)
Y. Chen, Sung Chang, Yang Zhao, Songxue Chi, William D. Ratcliff, B. G. Ueland, Ross Erwin
The new thermal triple-axis spectrometer at the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) is located at the BT-7 beam port. The 165 mm diameter reactor beam is equipped with a selection of Söller collimators, beam-limiters, and pyrolytic graphite (PG) filter

Local Weak Ferromagnetism in Single-Crystalline Ferroelectric BiFeO 3

November 1, 2011
Author(s)
M. Ramazanoglu, M. Laver, William D. Ratcliff, Shannon M. Watson, Wangchun Chen, Andrew Jackson, Karunakar NMN Kothapalli, Seongsu Lee, S.- W. Cheong, V. Kiryukhin
Polarized small-angle neutron scattering studies of single-crystalline multiferroic BefeO 3 reveal a long-wavelength spin density wave generated by 1° spin canting of the spins out of the rotation plane of the antiferromagnetic cycloidal order. This

Nitrogen Contamination in Elastic Neutron Scattering

February 23, 2011
Author(s)
Song Xue Chi, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Ying Chen, William D. Ratcliff, Benjamin Ueland, Nicholas P. Butch, Shanta R. Saha, Kevin Kirshenbaum, Johnpierre Paglione
Nitrogen gas accidentally sealed in a sample container produces various spurious effects in elastic neutron scattering measurements. These effects are systematically investigated and the details of the spurious scattering are presented.

Cd-doping effects in Ce 2 MIn 8 (M=Rh and Ir) Heavy Fermion Compounds

June 15, 2010
Author(s)
C. Adriano, C. Giles, E. M. Bittar, L. N. Coelho, F. de Bergevin, C. Mazzoli, L. Paolasini, William Ratcliff, Richard Bindel, Jeffrey Lynn, Z. Fisk, P. G. Pagliuso
Low temperature magnetic properties of Cd-doped Ce 2MIn 8 (M = Rh and Ir) single crystals are investigated. Experiments of temperature dependent magnetic susceptibility, heat capacity and electrical resistivity measurements revealed that Cd-doping enhances

3:1 Magnetization Plateau and Suppression of Ferroelectric Polarization in an Ising Chain Multiferroic

January 26, 2009
Author(s)
Y.-J. Jo, Seoungsu Lee, E. Choi, H. Yi, William D. Ratcliff, Y. Choi, V. Kiryukhin, S.-W. Cheong, L. Balicas
Ferroelectric Ising chain magnet Ca3Co2−xMnxO6 (x≃0.96) was studied in magnetic fields of up to 33 T. Magnetization and neutron-scattering measurements reveal successive metamagnetic transitions from the zero-field ↑↑↓↓ spin configuration to the ↑↑↑↓ state