BaFeO3: A Ferromagnetic Iron Oxide
BaFeO3: A Ferromagnetic Iron Oxide
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.201105276
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发表时间:
2011-01-01
影响因子:
16.6
通讯作者:
Takano, Mikio
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作者:
Hayashi, Naoaki;Yamamoto, Takafumi;Takano, Mikio
A small class of oxides that contain iron in a high valence state of Fe4+(d4) are known. The most representative phase is SrFeO3 (SFO) that crystallizes in the cubic perovskite structure containing corner-sharing (FeO6) 12À octahedra and Sr2+ ions that occupy the resulting large open voids. It has been shown that SFO and related oxides behave very differently from Fe2+ and Fe3+ oxides such as FeO, Fe2+/3+ 3O4, and LaFe3+O3 (LFO). To the best of our knowledge, all these Fe2+ and Fe3+ oxides are antiferromagnetic (or ferrimagnetic) insulators in their ground states. Valence mixing often generates good electrical conductivity, but even for the most well-known case of Fe3O4, an insulating gap of 0.11 eV [1] eventually opens at 119K (the Verwey transition). Fe3O4 and Y3Fe3+ 5O12 have nontrivial spontaneous magnetizations of approximately 1 mB per Fe ion, but these values are due to simple imbalance between the antiferromagnetic sublattices and not to ferromagnetism. In contrast, the Fe4+ oxides commonly exhibit a shift toward metallicity and ferromagnetism. SFO maintains cubic symmetry down to low temperatures in spite of the instability inherent to the twofold orbitally degenerate t2g 3eg 1 configuration and, at the same time, maintains metallic conductivity down to low temperatures.[2, 3] SFO is seemingly an antiferromagnet (TN% 134 K), but the nearest neighboring spins make an angle of only approximately 468 (3.1 mB per Fe ion at 4 K) in the helicoidal spin structure with a long wavelength.[4, 5] Moreover, genuine ferromagnetism appears when the specific volume is compressed to V (7 GPa)/V (0 GPa)= 0.95.[6] As discussed in our recent report on an Fe4+ oxide SrCu2+