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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 82, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.82.024423
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- Korea government (MEST) [2007-00758]
- MEST [2009-0072143, R15-2008-006-01002-0]
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2007-00758, 2008-56529, 2008-0062149, 2009-0072143] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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We have studied the correlation between the structural distortion and the magnetic interaction change in the ferrimagnetic (Lu, L)Fe2O4 (L=Y and Er) by using neutron powder diffraction and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD). The Rietveld profile refinements revealed that the Y or Er substitution flattens the hexagonal unit cell of the system and asymmetrically distorts the bipyramidal FeO5 cages with the increase in the substitution. Even in the presence of the Y or Er substitution, root 3 x root 3 superlattices are formed by Fe-valence ordering, and the interlayer magnetic coupling behavior does not change very much. Meanwhile, the Fe 2p XMCD spectra indicate that the Fe3+ spins become frustrated as the substitution increases. These results support that the unquenched orbital moment of the Fe2+ ions is the dominant factor for the giant magnetic anisotropy in LuFe2O4.
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