TY - JOUR
T1 - Frustration of magnetic and ferroelectric long-range order in Bi 2Mn4/3Ni2/3O6
AU - Claridge, John B.
AU - Hughes, Helen
AU - Bridges, Craig A.
AU - Allix, Mathieu
AU - Suchomel, Matthew R.
AU - Niu, Hongjun
AU - Kuang, Xiaojun
AU - Rosseinsky, Matthew J.
AU - Bellido, Natalia
AU - Grebille, Dominique
AU - Perez, Olivier
AU - Simon, Charles
AU - Pelloquin, Denis
AU - Blundell, Stephen J.
AU - Lancaster, Tom
AU - Baker, Peter J.
AU - Pratt, Francis L.
AU - Shiv Halasyamani, P.
PY - 2009/10/7
Y1 - 2009/10/7
N2 - The slight incommensurate modulation of the structure of Bi 2Mn4/3Ni2/3O6 is sufficient to suppress the electrical polarization which arises in commensurate treatments of the structure, due to antiferroelectric coupling of local polar units of over 900 Å3. The incommensurate structure is produced by the competition between ferroelectric Bi lone pair-driven A site displacement, chemical order of Mn and Ni on the B site, and both charge and orbital order at these transition metals. The interplay between the frustrated polar Bi displacements and the frustrated spin order at the B site, induced by positional disorder, produces magnetodielectric coupling between the incommensurately modulated lattice and the spin-glass-like ground state with an unusual relationship between the magnetocapacitance and the applied field.
AB - The slight incommensurate modulation of the structure of Bi 2Mn4/3Ni2/3O6 is sufficient to suppress the electrical polarization which arises in commensurate treatments of the structure, due to antiferroelectric coupling of local polar units of over 900 Å3. The incommensurate structure is produced by the competition between ferroelectric Bi lone pair-driven A site displacement, chemical order of Mn and Ni on the B site, and both charge and orbital order at these transition metals. The interplay between the frustrated polar Bi displacements and the frustrated spin order at the B site, induced by positional disorder, produces magnetodielectric coupling between the incommensurately modulated lattice and the spin-glass-like ground state with an unusual relationship between the magnetocapacitance and the applied field.
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U2 - 10.1021/ja902424x
DO - 10.1021/ja902424x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:70349614634
SN - 0002-7863
VL - 131
SP - 14000
EP - 14017
JO - Journal of the American Chemical Society
JF - Journal of the American Chemical Society
IS - 39
ER -