Local structure of Sr-doped multiferroic bismuth ferrite

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Bismuth ferrite, BiFeO3, is a much-studied ceramic showing both dielectric and magnetic ordering at relatively high temperatures. In order to improve its properties there has been much interest in doping BiFeO3, but rarely has there been structural characterisation of these materials. We have shown that it is possible to replace bismuth ions by strontium together with oxygen vacancies. Increasing composition of strontium lowers the transition temperatures so that the high-symmetry cubic phase becomes stable at room temperature. This is exciting because we cannot reach this phase by heating pure BiFeO3. We will use neutron total scattering with Reverse Monte Carlo analysis to study the local structure fluctuations in materials with various strontium compositions in both ferroelectric and paraelectric phases for comparison.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.94114144
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/94114144
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Creator Miss Lei Tan; Dr Haolai Tian; Miss Jiaxun Liu; Dr Zhengzheng Ma; Dr Donna Arnold; Professor Martin Dove; Professor David Keen; Dr Anthony Phillips; Dr Helen Playford
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
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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Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-06-11T07:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-06-13T08:29:34Z