A quantitative understanding of magneto-electrical coupling in the multiferroic compounds, CoCr2-xFexO4: A neutron diffraction study

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The multiferroic (type II) compound, CoCr2O4 undergoes a spiral magnetic ordering and concomitant ferroelectric transition at the spiral ordering temperature (26.3 K). The spiral ordering is sensitive to the A(Co)–B(Cr) and B(Cr)–B(Cr) exchange interactions. Thus, by varying the cation distribution on the B sites, it is possible to tune exchange interactions and the spiral ordering, and hence the ferroelectric polarization. We propose to investigate the spirality in Fe substituted CoCr2-xFexO4 (x: 0 - 0.20 ) compounds by using the GEM diffractometer to establish a quantitative interdependence of spin spirality vs electric polarization. The expected outcome would verify the proposed theoretical spin-current model for the magnetic ferroelectricity and would be useful to tune multiferroic properties of type II multiferroic compounds.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.92919387
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/92919387
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Creator Dr Amit Kumar; Dr Ivan da Silva Gonzalez; Dr Anil Jain
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
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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Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-04-30T07:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-05-02T07:00:00Z