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Magnetic and electric properties of CaMn7O12 based multiferroic compounds: effect of electron doping

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Title Magnetic and electric properties of CaMn7O12 based multiferroic compounds: effect of electron doping
 
Creator SANNIGRAHI, J
CHATTOPADHYAY, S
DUTTA, D
GIRI, S
MAJUMDAR, S
 
Subject MANGANESE PEROVSKITE CAMN7O12
FERROELECTRICITY
SPECTROSCOPY
GLASSES
MEMORY
 
Description The mixed valent multiferroic compound CaMn7O12 is studied for its magnetic and electric properties. The compound undergoes magnetic ordering below 90 K with a helimagnetic structure followed by a low temperature magnetic anomaly observed around 43 K. This study shows that the magnetic anomaly at 43 K is associated with thermal hysteresis indicating the first order nature of the transition. The compound also shows field-cooled magnetic memory and relaxation below 43 K, although no zero-field-cooled memory is present. A clear magnetic hysteresis loop is present in the magnetization versus field measurements, signifying the presence of some ferromagnetic clusters in the system. We doped trivalent La at the site of divalent Ca expecting to enhance the fraction of Mn3+ ions. The La doped samples show reduced magnetization, although the temperatures associated with the magnetic anomalies remain almost unaltered. Interestingly, the spontaneous electrical polarization below 90 K increases drastically on La substitution. We propose that the ground states of the pure as well as the La doped compositions contain isolated superparamagnetic like clusters, which can give rise to metastability in the form of field-cooled memory and relaxation. The ground state is certainly not spin glass type, as is evident from the absence of zero-field-cooled memory and frequency shift in the ac susceptibility measurements.
 
Publisher IOP PUBLISHING LTD
 
Date 2014-10-15T10:30:33Z
2014-10-15T10:30:33Z
2013
 
Type Article
 
Identifier JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER, 25(24)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/25/24/246001
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/jspui/handle/100/14750
 
Language en