New Routes to Synthesizing an Ordered Perovskite CaCu3Fe2Sb2O12 and Its Magnetic Structure by Neutron Powder Diffraction

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• 作者：Sebastian A. Larregola ; Jianshi Zhou ; Jose A. Alonso ; Vladimir Pomjakushin ; John B. Goodenough
• 刊名：Inorganic Chemistry
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：May 5, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：53
• 期：9
• 页码：4281-4283
• 全文大小：192K
• 年卷期：v.53,no.9(May 5, 2014)
• ISSN：1520-510X

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The search for new double-perovskite oxides has grown rapidly in recent years because of their interesting physical properties like ferroelectricity, magnetism, and multiferroics. The synthesis of double perovskites, especially the A-site-ordered perovskites, in most cases needs to be made under high pressure, which is a drawback for applying these materials. Here we have demonstrated synthetic routes at ambient pressure by which we have obtained a high-quality duo-sites-ordered double perovskite, CaCu₃Fe₂Sb₂O₁₂, which has been previously synthesized under high pressure. The availability of a large quantity of the powder sample allows us to determine the crystal and magnetic structures by neutron powder diffraction (NPD) at 300 and 1.3 K. Measurements of the magnetization and heat capacity showed a ferrimagnetic transition at 160 K. A ferrimagnetic structure consisting of the uncompensated antiferromagnetic coupling between neighboring collinear copper and iron spins has been resolved from the low-temperature NPD data.