Magnetic and Nuclear Structures of Low-dimensional Antiferromagnet K(1-δ)Fe2Se3 for 0.0 ≤ δ ≤ 1.0

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In 2010 several groups showed that iron selenide, already a superconductor at 8 K, could be charged with alkali cations leading to higher critical temperatures. These compounds consist of the general formula A2Fe4Se5 where A = K, Rb, Cs, or Tl. We have prepared a related phase KFe2Se3, which undergoes an antiferromagnetic transition at 130 K as evidenced by our SQUID magnetization data. Instead of 2D sheets of edge-sharing FeSe4 tetrahedra as in the 245-phases, however, the dimensionality has been reduced to a double chain structure in the 123-phase. We propose a neutron diffraction experiment using the Wish diffractometer at ISIS to study the magnetic and nuclear structure of KFe2Se3 as a function of temperature and K occupancy. This study aims to establish the crystal structure above and below 130 K, magnetic ordering, size of the iron moment, and chemical stoichiometry.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24089706
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24089706
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Creator Mr Mark Green; Dr Chris Stock; Dr Efrain Rodriguez
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2015
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 2012-10-22T12:30:23Z
Temporal Coverage End 2012-10-24T08:30:15Z