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- Title
Coupled ferroelectric polarization and magnetization in spinel FeCr<sub>2</sub>S<sub>4</sub>.
- Authors
Lin, L.; Zhu, H. X.; Jiang, X. M.; Wang, K. F.; Dong, S.; Yan, Z. B.; Yang, Z. R.; Wan, J. G.; Liu, J.-M.
- Abstract
One of the core issues for multiferroicity is the strongly coupled ferroelectric polarization and magnetization, while so far most multiferroics have antiferromagnetic order with nearly zero magnetization. Magnetic spinel compounds with ferrimagnetic order may be alternative candidates offering large magnetization when ferroelectricity can be activated simultaneously. In this work, we investigate the ferroelectricity and magnetism of spinel FeCr2S4 in which the Fe2+ sublattice and Cr3+ sublattice are coupled in antiparallel alignment. Well defined ferroelectric transitions below the Fe2+ orbital ordering termperature T∞=8.5 K are demonstrated. The ferroelectric polarization has two components. One component arises mainly from the noncollinear conical spin order associated with the spin-orbit coupling, which is thus magnetic field sensitive. The other is probably attributed to the Jahn-Teller distortion induced lattice symmetry breaking, occuring below the orbital ordering of Fe2+. Furthermore, the coupled ferroelectric polarization and magnetization in response to magnetic field are observed. The present work suggests that spinel FeCr2S4 is a multiferroic offering both ferroelectricity and ferrimagnetism with large net magnetization.
- Subjects
FERROELECTRICITY; MAGNETIZATION; FERROELECTRIC transitions; MAGNETIC fields; JAHN-Teller effect; MULTIFERROIC materials
- Publication
Scientific Reports, 2014, p1
- ISSN
2045-2322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/srep06530