Structural and magnetic orders in Ga-V oxide spinels

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In certain materials, notably with the spinel structure, orbital ordering can result in the formation of a ground state with electrons delocalising between small numbers of adjacent cations, called ?orbital molecules?. Two new spinels, GaV2O4 (a = 8.3130(5) Å) and Li0.5Ga0.5V2O4 (a = 8.3129(1) Å), have recently been synthesised by high temperature solid-state reactions as candidate orbital molecule materials. GaV2O4 is paramagnetic down to 4 K, but a sharp magnetic ordering transition is observed at 15 K for Li0.5Ga0.5V2O4.We request 2 days on HRPD to study the crystal and magnetic structures of GaV2O4 and Li0.5Ga0.5V2O4, over the temperature range 4-300 K. Neutrons are required to refine cation occupancies and observe magnetic order, and the high resolution of HRPD is needed to observe any subtle superstructures associated with orbital/spin orders.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.63530739
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/63530739
Provenance
Creator Dr Kevin Knight; Professor Paul Attfield; Mr Alexander Browne; Dr Elise Pachoud; Dr James Cumby
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2018
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 2015-09-28T23:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2015-09-30T23:00:00Z