ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Data Journal

Structural and magnetic characterisation of new room temperature polar-magnetic materials

Abstract: A new generation of low-power high-density information storage would be enabled by the development of “multiferroic” materials which function at or above room temperature. Such materials are rare, as they require polarisation P (usually arising from d0 cations such as Pb and Ti) to be coupled with spontaneous magnetisation from long-range magnetic ordering M (usually arising from unpaired d electrons in cations such as Fe3+) within a single phase material. Even where these antagonistic properties can be combined it is difficult to maintain the magnetic properties at room temperature; it is thus desirable to develop new approaches to combining P and M at high temperatures. We aim to use neutron powder diffraction to investigate new routes to the design and synthesis of new polar/ferroelectric materials that are magnetically ordered at room temperature.

Principal Investigator: Dr Matthew Rosseinsky
Experimenter: Dr Michael Pitcher
Experimenter: Dr John Claridge
Local Contact: Dr Dominic Fortes
Experimenter: Mr Jason Jackson
Experimenter: Dr Charlene Delacotte
Experimenter: Miss Jessica Stoner

DOI: 10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1610331

ISIS Experiment Number: RB1610331

Publisher: STFC ISIS Neutron and Muon Source

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