Complex spin orders in Ni2-xCoxScSbO6

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Cation-ordered variants of the M2O3 corundum structure are of interest as polar magnets with potential multiferroic properties, e.g. Ni3TeO6 (NTO). Recently we reported that NTO-type solid solutions Ni2-xCoxScSbO6 have a very rich magnetic phase diagram. Ni2ScSbO6 has an incommensurate [0 ky 0] spin structure but investigated x = 0.5, 1, 1.5, and 2 compositions were found to have a novel series of long-period lock-in [0 0 kz] spin structures with commensurate kz = 1/3n. We propose here to explore the low-x crossover region between [0 ky 0] and [0 0 kz] regimes to discover whether other kz = 1/3n periodicities with n < 5, or other spin structures emerge close to the crossover. We also propose to study the high field NPD of the x = 0.1 sample to determine the spin order in the metamagnetic state observed above Hc ~2T at 4 K. 4 days of WISH beamtime are requested.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1920029-1
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Creator Ms Pavitra Shanbhag; Dr Elena Solana-Madruga; Dr Pascal Manuel; Dr KUNLANG JI; Professor Paul Attfield; Ms Patricia Romana Kloihofer; Professor Michael Carpenter
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2022
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-07-13T07:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-07-15T07:30:00Z