Effect of Chemical Pressure on the Magnetic Transition of Multiferroic Ca-BiFeO3
arXiv:0903.2976 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.79.212415
Abstract
Multiferroic BiFeO3 ceramics have been doped with Ca. The smaller ionic size of Ca compared with Bi means that doping acts as a proxy for hydrostatic pressure, at a rate of 1%Ca=0.3GPa. It is also found that the magnetic Neel temperature (TNeel) increases as Ca concentration increases, at a rate of 0.66K per 1%Ca (molar). Based on the effect of chemical pressure on TNeel, we argue that applying hydrostatic pressure to pure BiFeO3 can be expected to increase its magnetic transition temperature at a rate around ~2.2K/GPa. The results also suggest that pressure (chemical or hydrostatic) could be used to bring the ferroelectric critical temperature, Tc, and the magnetic TNeel closer together, thereby enhancing magnetoelectric coupling, provided that electrical conductivity can be kept sufficiently low.
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