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EPL
Volume 102, Number 2, April 2013
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| Article Number | 27002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/102/27002 | |
| Published online | 07 May 2013 | |
Oxygen-vacancy ordering in multiferroic Bi1−xCaxFeO3−x/2 (0.1 ⩽ x ⩽ 0.5)
Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Beijing 100190, China
Received: 31 January 2013
Accepted: 2 April 2013
Multiferroic Bi1−xCaxFeO3−x/2 (0.10 ⩽ x ⩽ 0.50) materials have been synthesized via a high-temperature sintering method. The structural properties have been studied using transmission electron microscopy (TEM), scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS). The EELS measurements reveal that the oxidation state of Fe ions in these compounds is Fe+3, and oxygen vacancies are created as Ca substitutions for Bi. A series of superstructure modulations appear along the a-axis direction, and their wavelength can be written as L = na (n = 4, 5, 6 and 7) depending on the Ca contents. Based on our structural analysis, we interpret these superstructures in terms of oxygen-vacancy ordering associated with local structural distortions.
PACS: 77.80.Dj – Domain structure; hysteresis / 77.80.Fm – Switching phenomena / 61.05.J- – Electron diffraction and scattering
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