Neutron diffraction characterization of gallium ferrite thin films

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Ga2-xFexO3 (GFO) is a ferrimagnetic magnetoelectric material presenting a Curie temperature above room temperature for x>1.3. It is therefore an interesting candidate for the realization of magnetoelectric memories ME-RAMs. We have performed coupled SQUID magnetometry and XMCD measurements on GFO thin films and evidenced a coinciding minimum in the magnitudes of Hc and ML. A similar behaviour is described in the literature for the isostructural compound epsilon-Fe2O3, and explained by a lattice distortion accompanying a commensurate to incommensurate magnetic transition. This transition has however never been evidenced in bulk for GFO. We therefore wish to perform a coupled neutron diffraction and 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy study of the magnetic structure of 57Fe-enriched GFO thin films in order to determine whether GFO thin films present a lattice distortion driven magnetic transition.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.81882406
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/81882406
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Creator Dr Christophe Lefevre; Mr Florian APPERT; Dr Pascal Manuel; Professor Nathalie VIART; Dr Jean Juraszek
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
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 Chemistry; Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-07-17T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-07-18T08:00:00Z