Crystal growth engineering and origin of the weak ferromagnetism in antiferromagnetic matrix of orthochromates from t-e orbital hybridization

Summary: We report a combined experimental and theoretical study on intriguing magnetic properties of quasiferroelectric orthochromates. Large single crystals of the family of RECrO3 (RE = Y, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, and Lu) compounds were successfully grown. Neutron Laue study indicates a go...

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Main Authors: Yinghao Zhu, Junchao Xia, Si Wu, Kaitong Sun, Yuewen Yang, Yanling Zhao, Hei Wun Kan, Yang Zhang, Ling Wang, Hui Wang, Jinghong Fang, Chaoyue Wang, Tong Wu, Yun Shi, Jianding Yu, Ruiqin Zhang, Hai-Feng Li
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-04-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004222003819