Dependence of magnetic exchange on superstructure in sodium cobaltate

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We are able to grow large single crystals of Na0.8CoO2 and to control the sodium superstructure via the cooling rate. Quenching rapidly to low temperature gives a striped phase, whereas slow-cooling results in a square superstructure. Our unpolarised inelastic neutron scattering measurements using IN20 at the ILL show that these superstructures lead to different in-plane exchange interactions. We now propose to use the flexibility of time-of-flight spectroscopy to extend these measurements to higher energies at lower wave-vector transfers on MERLIN at ISIS, in order to determine the dispersion across the Brillouin zone. We have identified a region of reciprocal space with weak phonon scattering that will allow us to determine the in-plane exchange constants. Measurements using the rotation method will be performed for each superstructure above and below the Neel temperature.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.42592211
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/42592211
Provenance
Creator Dr David Voneshen; Professor Jon Goff; Mr Eron Cemal; Dr Mechthild Enderle
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2016
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2013-10-10T23:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-10-18T23:00:00Z