Crystal and magnetic structures of new ruthenate perovskites

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Ruthenate perovskites have a diverse range of electronic properties originating from electron-electron correlations within broad 4d bands. We have recently investigated the high pressure perovskite ¿PrRuO3¿ which was initially reported by two groups. It has proved difficult to prepare phase pure samples of this material ¿ it appears to be Ru-deficient according to the composition PrRu1-xO3 (0 < x < 0.25). PrRu1-xO3 and a new analogue, NdRu1-xO3, adopt the orthorhombic Pnma perovskite superstructure. A magnetisation discontinuity at ~90 K is reminiscent of the orbital ordering transition observed in PbRuO3.Powder neutron diffraction data are required to provide accurate structural models for PrRu1-xO3, and NdRu1-xO3. Variable temperature data in the 4-300 K range will be needed to discover any orbital and/or magnetic order associated with the ~90 K transitions.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24089619
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24089619
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Creator Professor Paul Attfield; Miss Alex Sinclair; Miss Charlotte Cromie; Dr Lucy Clark
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2015
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2012-10-17T10:29:34Z
Temporal Coverage End 2012-12-20T09:20:06Z