Possibility of magnetoelectric effect in antiferromagnetic RFe2O4
- 1 November 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Ferroelectrics
- Vol. 161 (1) , 111-115
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00150199408213359
Abstract
We report the magnetoelectric effect of a polycrystalline sample of a triangular Ising antiferromagnet ErFe2O4-δ, in which the existence of short range charge ordering was inferred from the neutron and dielectric studies. The sign of the magnetoelectric signal was reversed at 77 K, when the electric or magnetic field was applied in the opposite directions during cooling the specimen down to 77 K. The sign of the signal was independent of the direction of the static bias magnetic field in the range above 150 K. The signal was maximum at 183 K. We suggest a relation between the origin of the magnetoelectric effect and the dielectric relaxation due to an electron hopping between Fe3- and Fe2+ sites.Keywords
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