The magnetic field and in-situ stress dependence of elastic behavior in EuTiO3 from resonant ultrasound spectroscopy
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Authors
Schiemer, Jason
Spalek, Leszek
Panagopoulos, Christos
Katsufuji, Takuro
Bussmann-Holder, Annette
Köhler, Jürgen
Carpenter, Michael
Publication Date
2016-02-10Journal Title
Physical Review B
ISSN
2469-9950
Publisher
American Physical Society
Volume
93
Number
054108
Language
English
Type
Article
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Schiemer, J., Spalek, L., Saxena, S., Panagopoulos, C., Katsufuji, T., Bussmann-Holder, A., Köhler, J., & et al. (2016). The magnetic field and in-situ stress dependence of elastic behavior in EuTiO3 from resonant ultrasound spectroscopy. Physical Review B, 93 (054108)https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.93.054108
Abstract
Magneto-electric coupling phenomena in EuTiO3 are of considerable fundamental interest and are also understood to be key to reported multiferroic behavior in strained films, which exhibit distinctly different properties to the bulk. Here the magneto-elastic coupling of EuTiO3 is investigated by resonant ultrasound spectroscopy with in-situ applied magnetic field and stress as a function of temperature ranging from temperatures above the structural transition temperature, Ts, to below the antiferromagnetic ordering temperature Tn. One single crystal and two polycrystalline samples are investigated and compared to each other. Both paramagnetic and diamagnetic transducer carriers are used, allowing an examination of the effect of both stress and magnetic field on the behaviour of the sample. The properties are reported in constant field/variable temperature and in constant temperature/variable field mode where substantial differences between both data sets are observed. In addition, elastic and magnetic poling at high fields and stresses at low temperature has been performed in order to trace the history dependence of the elastic constants. Four different temperature regions are identified, characterized by unusual elastic responses. The low temperature phase diagram has been explored and found to exhibit rich complexity. The data evidence a considerable relaxation of elastic constants at high temperatures, but with little effect from magnetic field alone above 20 K, in addition to the known low temperature coupling.
Sponsorship
MAC acknowledges support from NERC and EPSRC (grants NE/B505738/1 and EP/I036079/1, respectively). CP acknowledges financial support in Greece through FP7-REGPOT-2012-2013-1, and in Singapore through Award No. NRF-CRP-4-2008-04 of the Competitive Research Programme. LJS acknowledges the support of the National Science Centre (NCN) through grant MAESTRO no. DEC-2012/04/A/ST3/00342. Dr Albert Migliori (Los Alamos National Laboratory) is thanked for invaluable assistance in creating the RUS system with in-situ magnetic field. Prof Jim Scott (U. Cambridge) is thanked for his advice and assistance in interpreting the data and improving the manuscript. Tony Dennis (U. Cambridge) collected the SQUID data.
Funder references
EPSRC (EP/I036079/1)
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.93.054108
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/253046
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