Magnetic ordering in relation to the room-temperature magnetoelectric effect of Sr3Co2Fe24O41

Minoru Soda, Taishi Ishikura, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Yusuke Wakabayashi, Tsuyoshi Kimura

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Abstract

The origin of a room-temperature magnetoelectric (ME) effect has been examined by means of neutron powder diffraction measurements for a Z-type hexaferrite Sr3Co2Fe24O41. The temperature and magnetic-field dependence of the electric polarization P and several magnetic Bragg reflections show that a commensurate magnetic order with a (0,0,1) propagation vector has an intimate connection with the ME effect. The room-temperature ME effect can be understood in terms of the appearance of P which is induced by a transverse conical spin structure through the inverse Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya mechanism in analogy with Y-type hexaferrites.

Original languageEnglish
Article number087201
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume106
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011 Feb 22

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