Investigation of the nuclear and magnetic structures of GaV4S8-ySey materials

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Skyrmions, nano-sized topological objects, have recently been found in GaV4S8 and GaV4Se8 materials. In the search of new Skyrmion hosting materials, we have synthesised the GaV4S8-ySey (y = 0 to 8) family of materials. In contrasts to the long range ferromagnetic ordering exhibited by GaV4S8 and GaV4Se8, a canted antiferromagnetic state is found in materials with y between 2 and 6. Here we propose to investigate the nuclear and magnetic structures of GaV4S8, GaV4Se8 and GaV4S4Se4 samples with neutron diffraction in order to explore the drastic change in the observed magnetism in this family. We will be using single crystals (SXD) for our investigations.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.98003405
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/98003405
Provenance
Creator Dr Matthias Gutmann; Professor Geetha Balakrishnan; Dr Monica Ciomaga Hatnean; Dr Ales Stefancic; Mr Sam Holt
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-09-27T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-10-03T09:00:00Z