The charge-ordered superstructure of YbFe2O4

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There has been much recent interest in the so-called ¿novel¿ or ¿type-II¿ multiferroics, in which electrical polarisation appears at the onset of a particular type of magnetic ordering. The family of compounds based on LuFe2O4 is of particular current interest because they display ferroelectricity above room temperature and large coupling to magnetism. It is generally believed that ferroelectricity results form charge ordeing (CO) in these materials, but the CO superstructure has never been solved. We have recently grown high-quality crystals of YbFe2O4, showning sharp superlattice peaks, and we have acquired complete X-ray data sets on our lab diffractometer. We request beamtime on SXD to collect complementary neutron data, which will help to unravel the complex superstructure.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24079958
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24079958
Provenance
Creator Dr Devashi Adroja; Professor Paolo Radaelli
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2013
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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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2010-02-27T09:52:59Z
Temporal Coverage End 2010-03-03T15:39:09Z