Magnetic properties of a non-centrosymmetric polymorph of FeCl3
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F25%3A10503796" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/25:10503796 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d4ma00635f" target="_blank" >10.1039/d4ma00635f</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Magnetic properties of a non-centrosymmetric polymorph of FeCl3
Original language description
The growth of single crystals of FeCl3, through sublimation and from the melt, is presented alongside a thorough investigation of their magnetostructural properties through a combination of DC magnetization and AC magnetic susceptibility measurements, single crystal X-ray diffraction (SCXRD), neutron powder diffraction (NPD) and small-angle neutron scattering (SANS). A new chiral polymorph of FeCl3 is identified, crystallizing in the non-centrosymmetric space group P31. NPD and SANS reveal that a weakly first-order magnetic phase transition occurs from a paramagnetic phase with significant short-range correlations to an antiferromagnetic phase at TN = 8.6 K, best described by the magnetic propagation vector k = (1/2, 0, 1/3) which differs from the previously reported magnetic structure of the well-known centrosymmetric polymorph (space group R3). We show that disordered crystallographic models including a large number of stacking faults are required to accurately reproduce the scattering observed in NPD patterns, preventing full determination of the magnetic structure. The magnetic field and temperature-dependent behavior of the intensities of the k = (1/2, 0, 2/3) and (1/2, 0, 5/3) magnetic Bragg peaks measured by SANS suggest that a field-induced spin reorientation occurs at H = 40 kOe when H||c-axis and at a significantly lower field of H approximate to 25 kOe when H perpendicular to c-axis. Above these magnetic fields in both cases the spins lie predominantly in the basal plane. The long-range magnetic ordering and the field-induced transitions observed in the neutron scattering experiments coincide with anomalies observed in the magnetisation versus both temperature and applied field along the principal crystal directions.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10302 - Condensed matter physics (including formerly solid state physics, supercond.)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Materials Advances
ISSN
2633-5409
e-ISSN
2633-5409
Volume of the periodical
6
Issue of the periodical within the volume
13
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
4471-4482
UT code for WoS article
001502960200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105007911868