Belik, AA;
Matsushita, Y;
Tanaka, M;
Johnson, RD;
Khalyavin, DD;
(2021)
A plethora of structural transitions, distortions and modulations in Cu-doped BiMn7O12 quadruple perovskites.
Journal of Materials Chemistry C
, 9
(32)
pp. 10232-10242.
10.1039/d1tc02344f.
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Abstract
The presence of strongly competing electronic instabilities in a crystalline material can produce fascinating structural phenomena. For example, the A-site-ordered quadruple perovskite BiMn7O12 hosts both active polar instabilities of the Bi3+ lone pair electrons and Jahn–Teller instabilities of Mn3+ cations that drive the following sequence of phase transformations on cooling, Im-3 > I2/m > Im > P1, corresponding to orbital ordering and polar distortions. Carrier doping by Cu2+ tunes the two instabilities in BiCuxMn7−xO12 solid solutions and significantly complicates the system behavior. The x = 0.05 and 0.1 members show the following sequence of phase transformations on cooling, Im-3 > I2/m > R-1(αβγ)0 > R3(00γ)t, and are examples of materials with the electric dipole helicoidal texture in the ground state and a dipole density wave structure in the intermediate R-1(αβγ)0 phase (Science 2020, 369, 680–684). Here, the detailed behavior of the BiCuxMn7−xO12 solid solutions with x = 0.2–0.8 was investigated by laboratory X-ray, synchrotron X-ray, and neutron powder diffraction between 5 K and 620 K, and differential scanning calorimetry measurements. Nearly every composition (with a step Δx = 0.1) has a unique behavior when considering both the sequence of phase transitions and the presence of incommensurate superstructure reflections. The sequence Im-3 > HT-Immm(t)* > Immm* > LT-Immm(t)* is realized for x = 0.2 and 0.3 (where t denotes pseudo-tetragonal), Im-3 > I2/m* > Immm(t)* – for x = 0.4, Im-3 > I2/m* > I2/m* – for x = 0.5, Im-3 > I2/m* > Im-3 – for x = 0.6 and 0.7, and Im-3 > R-3 > I2/m > Im-3 – for x = 0.8, where asterisks denote the presence of additional incommensurate reflections. Re-entrance of the high-temperature cubic phase was observed at low temperatures for x = 0.6–0.8 suggesting strong competition between the different electronic instabilities. The re-entrant cubic phases have nearly zero thermal expansion.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | A plethora of structural transitions, distortions and modulations in Cu-doped BiMn7O12 quadruple perovskites |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1039/d1tc02344f |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1039/D1TC02344F |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Technology, Physical Sciences, Materials Science, Multidisciplinary, Physics, Applied, Materials Science, Physics, HIGH-PRESSURE SYNTHESIS, CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10133550 |
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