Magnetic Properties of FeCr₂S₄ and CoCr₂S₄

Abstract

S e w measurements of magnetic properties of pure FeCr,S, and CoCr2S, have been carried out. The g-factors of cobalt, iron, and chromium in these compounds were evaluated. Exchange interactions were deduced from computation of the experimental paramagnetic and magnetization curves. De nouvelles mesures des propriiftifs magnktiques ont iftif effectukes sur les coniposirs FeCr,S, et CoCr,S, obtenus A 1'6tat pur. Les facteurs g du cobalt, fer et chrome dans ces composes ont At8 irvaluifs. Le calcul des courbes de paramagnetisme et d'aimantation permet de difduire les interactions d'bchange. lntroductionIron and cobalt thiochromite (FeCr,S, and CoCr,S,) exhibit two crystallographic structures : a ferrimagnetic spinel phase and an antiferromapnetic nickel arsenide defect structure phase.These two thiochromites were first prepared in powder form from high purity elements (Fe, Co, Cr at 99.999%, S at 99.99999%). X-ray examination showed that no binary compounds were present.Octahedral single crystals up to 5 mni were grown by vapour transport using chlorine (FeCr,S,) or bromine (CoCr,S,) [I, 21. Low temperature X-ray photographs (down to 77 OK) show that no .Jahn-Teller distortion appears [ l , 21. The absence of any Jahn-Teller distorsion is consistent with the neutron diffraction results [3, 41, no distorsion appears down to a temperature of 4.2 OK. These compounds present semiconductor-like conductivity [5, 6, 21. Magnetic MeasurementsAll measurements were carried out on powdered monocrystalline material. PeC'r,Y,The paramagnetic susceptibility was measured between 200 and 1100 OK.The Curie temperature was found to be T , = 195 "K and Op = -290 OK. The reciprocal molar susceptibility vs. T (for 1' > 300 OK) can be fitted by the equation (Fig. 1 ) Taking into account the temperature dependence of the molecular field coefficients : n = no (1 + y T) (y = -lo-, in FeCr,S,, calculated from the NBel relations [IS]) the relation becomes 1 690 -~ + 41.8 -___ 1 _ -XJI 6.92T -208 '

Effects of spin ordering on phonon and plasmon spectra, and dielectric properties in magnetic semiconductors

“…Then (B -A) may become negative but small magnitude because of the cancellation of B and A. On the other hand, ferrimagnetic and ferromagnetic crystals with a low T, has a rather large antiferromagnetic part or large K i k (Baltzer et al, 1966; Gibart et al, 1969;Stapele, 1982;Kanomata et al, 1985). Therefore, a large value of B is expected.…”

“…These modes exhibit relatively large shifts below T, in comparison with those of the A-and B-modes, which are seen in Figures 2 and 3. This has been explained by the large magnitude of B in Eq (8) in comparison with that of A, which was predicted from the large pressure dependence of Kik estimated from the Curie temperature (Gibart, Dormann and Pellerin, 1969;Srivastava, 1969;Kanomata, Shirakawa and Kaneko, 1985;Sakai and Pifer, 1986). Since the Cd or Fe ions contribute strongly to Kik (Baltzer et al, 1966) and also to the C-and D-modes (Bruesch et al, 1972;Wakamura, Arai, Onari, Kudo and Takahashi, 1973), a large value of (B -A) is expected on the modes.…”

FeCr2S4 in magnetic fields: possible evidence for a multiferroic ground state

“…1 [39]. The successful refinement of the FeCr 2 S 4 magnetic structure indicated that the spin-only moments are reduced from expected values of −4.2 µ B for Fe 2+ with S = 2 and g = 2.1 and 3.0 µ B for Cr 3+ with spin S = 3/2 and g = 2.…”

Magnetic properties of the reentrant CdGa2−2Cr2Se4

“…An important difference between y and T c values could be attributed to a non defined ferromagnetic transition. However, sample with x ¼ 0:2 showed a ferrimagnetic behavior for Tp120 K. The high temperature data was fitted by using the well known relation [4,5]: 1=w ¼ T=C þ 1=w 0 À s=ðT À y f Þ with the parameters: 1/w 0 =1054.5 (3) g/emu; C=7.6 (emu K/g); y f =119 K; s ¼ 3862:7(7) (K g/emu).…”