Cross coupling between ferroelectricity and antiferromagnetism in the multiferroic PbFe1/2Nb1/2O3

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We propose to investigate the interplay of magnetic and structural properties in the multiferroic PbFe1/2Nb1/2O3 (PFN). PFN is the magnetic analogue of the archetypal lead based relaxor ferroelectrics. PFN at ambient pressure displays structural diffuse scattering (characteristic of local polar correlations) onset at ~400 K and magnetic diffuse correlations below 150 K. The magnetic and ferroelectric order parmeters are expected to be coupled through strain and indeed chemical pressure results in dramatic changes in the magnetic and structural properties. We therefore propose to use mechanical pressure on PEARL to controlably tune the coupled magnetic and polar correlations.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24068346
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24068346
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Creator Dr Matthew Tucker; Dr Chris Stock
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2012
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 2009-05-29T08:01:48Z
Temporal Coverage End 2009-06-01T09:22:18Z