Lattice expansion and non-collinear to collinear ferrimagnetic order in MnCr$_2$O$_4$ nanoparticle

Details Lattice expansion and non-collinear to collinear ferrimagnetic order in MnCr$_2$O$_4$ nanoparticle Lattice expansion and non-collinear to collinear ferrimagnetic order in MnCr$_2$O$_4$ nanoparticle

2005-10-30

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0510814v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.73.144413

We report magnetic behaviour of MnCr$_2$O$_4$, which belongs to a special class of spinel, known as chromite. Bulk MnCr$_2$O$_4$ shows a sequence of magnetic states, which follows paramagnetic (PM) to collinear ferrimagnetic (FM) state below T$_C$ $\sim$ 45 K and collinear FM state to non-collinear FM state below T$_S$ $\sim$ 18 K. The non-collinear spin structure has been modified on decreasing the particle size, and magnetic transition at T$_S$ decreases in nanoparticle samples. However, ferrimagnetic order is still dominating in nanoparticles, except the observation of superparamagnetic like blocking and decrease of spontaneous magnetization for nanoparticle. This may, according to the core-shell model of ferrimagnetic nanoparticle, be the surface disorder effect of nanoparticle. The system also show the increase of T$_C$ in nanoparticle samples, which is not consistent with the core-shell model. The analysis of the M(T) data, applying spin wave theory, has shown an unusual Bloch exponent value 3.35 for bulk MnCr$_2$O$_4$, which decreases and approaches to 1.5, a typical value for any standard ferromagnet, with decreasing the particle size. MnCr$_2$O$_4$ has shown a few more unusual behaviour. For example, lattice expansion in nanoparticle samples. The present work demonstrates the correlation between a systematic increase of lattice parameter and the gradual decrease of B site non-collinear spin structure in the light of magnetism of MnCr$_2$O$_4$ nanoparticles.

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