Isosymmetric Structural Changes in Y(Mn,Ti)O3

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YMnO3 attracted significant attention because of its multiferroic properties and the "geometric origin" of its ferroelectricity. Despite numerous studies of this compound, the structural changes that underlie the isosymmetric phase transition, which has been identified with the Curie temperature, remain unclear. Our Rietveld refinements using the variable-temperature neutron diffraction data indicate significant worsening of the fit below the isosymmetric transition that cannot be explained using the average-structure model. The aim of this proposal is to (1) use total scattering to determine the differences between the local and average structures of YMnO3 to clarify the nature of the isosymmetric phase transition and (2) determine the structural changes that underlie an anomalous atmosphere-dependent behavior of the lattice parameters with temperature in the Ti-substituted YMnO3.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.54814535
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/54814535
Provenance
Creator Dr Igor Levin; Dr Matthew Tucker
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2017
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Discipline Biology; Biomaterials; Chemistry; Construction Engineering and Architecture; Engineering; Engineering Sciences; Life Sciences; Materials Science; Materials Science and Engineering; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2014-07-31T23:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2014-08-03T23:00:00Z