Anisotropic magnetic property and exchange bias effect in a homogeneous Sillen-Aurivillius layered oxide

Zezhi Chen, Tao Hong, Zhenbin Wang, Jianlin Wang, Haoliang Huang, Ranran Peng*, Wensheng Yan, Zhengping Fu, Kyle S. Brinkman, Yalin Lu*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A new Sillen-Aurivillius oxide Bi7Fe2Ti2O17Cl (BFTOCl), in which four perovskite layers are sandwiched by Sillen slabs, is designed and prepared by the solid-state reaction. Compared with pure Aurivilius structure, the Sillen slab requires one less positive charge for charge compensation due to the intercalation of Cl anions between two (Bi2O2)2+, which increases the concentration of magnetic Fe3+ ions in perovskite slab, and may depress the interaction of Fe3+ ions existing in neighboring perovskite slabs. This unique natural superlattice structure and the highly orientated texture of the ceramic result in a complex spin structure and an interesting magnetic anisotropy. The magnetism in in-plane direction (0.00487 emu/g at 100 K) is about 2.5 times larger than that in out-of-plane direction. Remarkably, exchange bias anisotropy has been observed in the BFTOCl ceramic, of which the exchange bias fields in in-plane and out-of-plane directions are 345 and 174 Oe at 100 K, respectively. © 2019 Elsevier Ltd.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2685-2691
JournalJournal of the European Ceramic Society
Volume39
Issue number8
Online published4 Mar 2019
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2019
Externally publishedYes

Funding

This work is supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2016YFA0401004), the Chinese Universities Scientific Fund (CUSF, WK2310000055), Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation (P. R. China, No. 1608085QE91), and the External Cooperation Program of BIC (Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 211134KYSB20130017). XAS and XMCD measurements were performed at the beamline BL12B-a in the National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (NSRL) in Hefei and the beamline 08U-a in the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Shanghai, P. R. China, respectively. We acknowledge the Supercomputing Center of University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) for providing computational resources.

Research Keywords

  • Exchange bias
  • Magnetic anisotropy
  • Oriented ceramic
  • Sillen-Aurivillius
  • Spin glass

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