Tuning of magnetic ordering by Y substitution onto Tb site in the nanocrystalline TbMnO{sub 3}
- Chemistry Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai 400085 (India)
- UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research—Mumbai Centre, R-5 Shed, BARC Campus, Trombay, Mumbai 400085 (India)
We report the magnetic properties, of nano-crystalline powders Tb{sub 1−x}Y{sub x}MnO{sub 3} (x = 0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3 and 0.4), as perceived by neutron diffraction, and elucidate the effect of Tb site substitution on the magnetic structure of TbMnO{sub 3}. All samples crystallized in the orthorhombic structure conforming to space group Pnma, and exhibited an incommensurate collinear antiferromagnetic ordering of the Mn ions below ∼40 K. Furthermore, at T ≤ 20 K, all these samples showed a change in magnetic structure (of Mn moments) to a spiral ordering down to 2 K, the lowest measured temperature. For the samples with x = 0, 0.1, and 0.2, a short-ranged two dimensional (2D) ordering of Tb moments was also observed at 2 K. However, for the other samples (x = 0.3 and 0.4), no magnetic ordering of Tb moments was found down to 2 K. So with Y substitution, a crossover from 2D ordering to a disordering of Tb moments was observed. The moments at the Mn site were found to be lower than the full Mn{sup 3+} (4μ{sub B}) moment for all the samples below 40 K. The magnetic properties of all the samples studied by us in nano form are more pronounced than those of the reported single crystals of same compositions [V. Yu. Ivanov et al., JETP Lett. 91, 392–397 (2010)].
- OSTI ID:
- 22492860
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 118, Issue 16; Other Information: (c) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0021-8979
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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