Magnetic structure studies of the novel multiferroic Bi0.94Dy0.06FeO3

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Multiferroic materials which exhibit both magnetic and electric ordering offer the potential application in data storage, spintronics, and microelectronics. To date the most widely studied multiferroic is bismuth ferrite due to its room temperature (anti)ferromagnetic and ferroelectric ordering. Recently we have synthesised a series of Dy doped BiFeO3 materials. The most interesting of these is Bi0.94Dy0.06FeO3 since both magnetic and electric ordering are retained above room temperature. Previously it has been reported that doping with Dy unwinds the magnetic spin cycloid favouring ferromagnetic ordering. However, our results suggest that whilst a lowering of the magnetic ordering temperature is observed antiferromagnetic character is retained. Furthermore, there is a clear correlation between the electric and magnetic ordering warranting further investigation.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.42592065
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/42592065
Provenance
Creator Mr Daniel Jackson; Dr Donna Arnold; Mr Chris Lennox; Dr Laura Vera Stimpson
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2016
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 2013-10-01T23:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-10-04T11:09:35Z