期刊
JOURNAL OF SOLID STATE CHEMISTRY
卷 199, 期 -, 页码 295-304出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jssc.2013.01.001
关键词
Spinel; Infrared spectra; Magnetization; Multiferroic
资金
- National Science Center [2011/03/N/ST5/04770]
Temperature-dependent magnetic and IR studies of two nanocrystlline CoCr2O4 samples with the mean crystallite size of 23.3 and 4.5 nm are presented. Magnetic studies show that transition temperature to collinear ferrimagnetic structure, which occurs in bulk CoCr2O4 at T-c=93-97 K, is weakly affected by reducing the size to about 8 nm. However, it strongly decreases, to about 75 K, by further reducing the size to 4.5 nm. We also report that the incommensurate spiral magnetic structure may easily develop below T-s=24 K in particles with the mean size of 23.3 nm but magnetization data do not show any evidence of this transition for the particles with the mean size of 4.5 nm. Temperature-dependent IR studies revealed pronounced low temperature phonon anomalies below T-c, which were attributed to strong coupling between the low wavenumber phonons and a ferrimagnetic collinear component of the magnetic order. Our results also revealed weak phonon anomalies below 25 K, which were attributed to weak spin-phonon and/or electromagnon-phonon coupling. Analysis of phonon damping also revealed some anomalies near expected magnetic phase transitions. The observed anomalous behavior is most likely dominated by spin-phonon coupling. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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