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Magnetic properties of Single Crystal GaFeO3

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κ-Al2O3-type GaFeO3 is a promising multiferroic material due to the coexistence of a large spontaneous magnetization and polarization near room temperature. In the current study, we present the magnetic properties of single crystalline GaFeO3 and compare it with that of ε-Fe2O3. Magnetic measurements revealed that spontaneous magnetization appears below 540 K in two steps, similar to that reported for ε−Fe2O3. Partial magnetic ordering takes place at 540 K (TN1), with Fe3+ ions in two distorted octahedral sites ordering antiparallel to one another. Upon further cooling at 200 K (TN2), the remaining Fe3+ ions in regular octahedra and tetrahedra order antiparallel to one another. Substitution of Ga for Fe in ε-Fe2O3 leads to a decrease in TN1 and TN2 from 850 to 540 K and from 480 to 200 K, respectively, caused by a dilution of magnetic Fe by nonmagnetic Ga and preferential site occupation of Ga.

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  1. Laboratory for Materials and Structures, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Midori-ku, Yokohama, 226-8503, Japan

    Koki Tachiyama, Shintaro Yasui, Badari Narayana Aroor Rao, Takuro Dazai, Takamasa Usami, Tomoyasu Taniyama & Mitsuru Itoh

  2. Department of Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan

    Tsukasa Katayama

  3. Department of Applied Physics, National Defence of Academy, Yokosuka, 239-8686, Japan

    Yosuke Hamasaki

  4. Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, P.R. China, 200050

    Jianding Yu, Huan He & Hui Wang

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Tachiyama, K., Yasui, S., Rao, B.N.A. et al. Magnetic properties of Single Crystal GaFeO3. MRS Advances 4, 61–66 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1557/adv.2019.37

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