Effect of cation substitution on magnetic properties in Mn1−xA’xCr2S4 (A’ = Cd, Zn) thiospinel series

Patricia Mabel Barahona Huenchumil (First Author), Antonio César Galdámez Silva, Víctor Manríquez Castro, Christian Americo Cruzat Contreras, Ch Raison, Xavier Le Coz, Edgardo René Chacón Andrade, Carlos Moure

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Abstract

Colossal magnetoresistance (CMR) materials such as REMnO3 perovskites and AB2S4 thiospinels have been well studied in the past. The authors present thiospinel compounds with A = Mn, since they may be viewed as a link to REMnO3 CMR perovskites. Ferrimagnetic MnCr2S4 is known to present a T c of 65 K and a magnetic transition towards a non-collinear Yafet-Kittel state. The (Mn1−xA’x)Cr2S4 series (A = Cd, Zn) was synthesised at 850°C. This series crystallises in the space group Fd3m with a close to 10 Å. When A’ = Cd (T c ranging from 68 K, x = 0·2, to 79 K, x = 0·6), the ferromagnetic features are enhanced, indicating that antiferromagnetism between Mn spins is progressively lost. For A’ = Zn, two magnetic transitions take place, one at 15 K, which is reminiscent of the antiferromagnetic state of ZnCr2S4 and another one at T c = 115 K. Impurities which could be responsible of these two magnetic states are excluded.
Original languageSpanish
JournalAdvances in Applied Ceramics Structural, Functional and Bioceramics
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2007
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Ferrimagnetism Interacting; Sublattices; Cooperative phenomena; Spin reorientation

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