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  • Title: Interplay between size, composition, and phase transition of nanocrystalline Cr(3+)-doped BaTiO3 as a path to multiferroism in perovskite-type oxides.
    Author: Ju L, Sabergharesou T, Stamplecoskie KG, Hegde M, Wang T, Combe NA, Wu H, Radovanovic PV.
    Journal: J Am Chem Soc; 2012 Jan 18; 134(2):1136-46. PubMed ID: 22239686.
    Abstract:
    Multiferroics, materials that exhibit coupling between spontaneous magnetic and electric dipole ordering, have significant potential for high-density memory storage and the design of complex multistate memory elements. In this work, we have demonstrated the solvent-controlled synthesis of Cr(3+)-doped BaTiO(3) nanocrystals and investigated the effects of size and doping concentration on their structure and phase transformation using X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy. The magnetic properties of these nanocrystals were studied by magnetic susceptibility, magnetic circular dichroism (MCD), and X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) measurements. We observed that a decrease in nanocrystal size and an increase in doping concentration favor the stabilization of the paraelectric cubic phase, although the ferroelectric tetragonal phase is partly retained even in ca. 7 nm nanocrystals having the doping concentration of ca. 5%. The chromium(III) doping was determined to be a dominant factor for destabilization of the tetragonal phase. A combination of magnetic and magneto-optical measurements revealed that nanocrystalline films prepared from as-synthesized paramagnetic Cr(3+)-doped BaTiO(3) nanocrystals exhibit robust ferromagnetic ordering (up to ca. 2 μ(B)/Cr(3+)), similarly to magnetically doped transparent conducting oxides. The observed ferromagnetism increases with decreasing constituent nanocrystal size because of an enhancement in the interfacial defect concentration with increasing surface-to-volume ratio. Element-specific XMCD spectra measured by scanning transmission X-ray microscopy (STXM) confirmed with high spatial resolution that magnetic ordering arises from Cr(3+) dopant exchange interactions. The results of this work suggest an approach to the design and preparation of multiferroic perovskite materials that retain the ferroelectric phase and exhibit long-range magnetic ordering by using doped colloidal nanocrystals with optimized composition and size as functional building blocks.
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