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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 41, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/41/10/102003
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The mechanism of the formation of heterovalent-substitution-induced defects as well as their influence on the magnetic properties of BiFeO3-based multiferroics has been studied. It has been shown that heterovalent A(2+) substitution results in the formation of oxygen vacancies in the host lattices of both antiferromagnetic and weak ferromagnetic Bi(1-x)A(x) FeO3 (A = Ca, Sr, Pb, Ba; x = 0.2, 0.3) compounds, thus indicating the intrinsic (i.e. not related to defects themselves) mechanism of doping-induced enhancement of magnetization. A correlation between the ionic radius of the substituting element and the value of the spontaneous magnetization of the corresponding solid solution has been found. The experimental results suggest that A-site substitution with the biggest ionic radius ions effectively suppresses the spiral spin configuration of antiferromagnetic BiFeO3.
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