Structural and Magnetic Characterizations of the New, High Pressure Synthesized Perovskite Bi2NiCrO6

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After an almost forty year lull in research on multiferroic materials, there has been a resurgence of interest in them. However, it is particularly challenging to synthesize a novel multiferroic material as it seems that the mechanisms that allow magnetism and ferroelectricity are mutually exclusive. One way to combine both properties is to design a material like BiFeO3: the lone pair on Bi induces polarization that causes ferroelectricity while the d electrons of the Fe ion induce ferromagnetism. Inspired by BiFeO3, BiNiO3 and BiCrO3, we have synthesized the new compound Bi2NiCrO6. The material presents a perovskite-type structure in which X-ray diffraction is compatible with the space groups Pbnm or P21/n. Thus, neutron diffraction experiments are needed to fully characterize the structure of Bi2NiCrO6 and to better understand the magnetic ordering of the new material.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24079653
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24079653
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Creator Dr Angel Arevalo Lopez; Miss Helen Twyman
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2013
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 2010-05-03T11:45:42Z
Temporal Coverage End 2010-05-08T07:42:34Z