Investigation of Crystal and Magnetic Structure of BiFeO3 Using Neutron Diffraction |
| I. Sosnowska, R. Przeniosło Institute of Experimental Physics, Warsaw University, Hoża 69, 00-681 Warszawa, Poland P. Fischer Laboratorium für Neutronenstreuung ETH Zürich & Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland and V.A. Murashov Institute of Radiotechnics, Electronics and Automatics, Moscow, Russia |
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| Polycrystalline material obtained from the ground single crystal of BiFeO3 reported as not having the superstructure, shows the superstructure reflections in neutron diffraction pattern. The determined magnetic moment of antiferromagnetically ordered Fe3+ ions is μFe = (3.70±0.03)μB at 293 K. |
| DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.86.629 PACS numbers: 61.12.Gz, 77.84.Bw, 75.50.Ee |