Antiferromagnetic defect structure in LaNiO3–δ single crystals

Wang, Bi -Xia; Rosenkranz, Stephan; Rui, X.; Zhang, Junjie; Ye, Feng; Zheng, Hong; Klie, R. F.; Mitchell, John F.; Phelan, Daniel

doi:10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.2.064404

Title: Antiferromagnetic defect structure in $LaNi O_{3 - δ}$ single crystals

Journal Article · Tue Jun 12 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Physical Review Materials

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.2.064404· OSTI ID:1454392

Wang, Bi -Xia ^[1]; Rosenkranz, Stephan ^[1]; Rui, X. ^[2];

^[3];

^[4]; Zheng, Hong ^[1]; Klie, R. F. ^[2]; Mitchell, John F. ^[1]; Phelan, Daniel ^[1]

Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

The origins of the metal-insulator and magnetic transitions exhibited by perovskite rare-earth nickelates, RNiO3 (where R is a rare-earth element), remain open issues, with charge disproportionation, magnetic interactions, and lattice response across multiple length scales being among the many possible origins. Recently, growth of single crystals of LaNiO3, which is the only member of these compounds that remains metallic in its ground state, has been reported, opening a new chapter in the investigation of the perovskite nickelates. Here, using a combination of magnetometry, heat capacity, and neutron scattering on as-grown and purposely reduced LaNiO3-delta crystals, we show that both antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic phases with a Neel temperature of similar to 152 K and a Curie temperature of similar to 225 K can be induced by reduction of the oxygen content. Transmission electron microscopy shows that these phases are characterized by ordered oxygen vacancy defect structures that exist as dilute secondary phases in as-grown crystals despite growth in partial oxygen pressures up to at least 130 bar. The demonstration of antiferromagnetism resulting from oxygen vacancy ordered structures implies that stoichiometry must be explicitly considered when interpreting the bulk properties of LaNiO3-(delta) single crystals; accordingly, the implications of our results for putative oxygen-stoichiometric LaNiO3 are discussed.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725; AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1454392

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1441245; OSTI ID: 1461509

Journal Information:: Physical Review Materials, Vol. 2, Issue 6; ISSN 2475-9953

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