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Structural, magnetic and electrical transport properties of double perovskite Tb2MnCoO6

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2016

S.L. Wang
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Center for Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, People's Republic of China
H. Xu
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Center for Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, People's Republic of China
X.P. Wu
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Center for Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, People's Republic of China
P.G. Li*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Center for Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, People's Republic of China
G. Ungar
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Center for Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, People's Republic of China; and Department of Engineering Materials, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 3JD, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Y. Liu
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Center for Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, People's Republic of China
J.Q. Shen
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Center for Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, People's Republic of China
W.H. Tang*
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics & Optical Communication, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, People's Republic of China
*
a)Address all correspondence to these authors. e-mail: pgli@zstu.edu.cn
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Abstract

The double perovskite Tb2MnCoO6 and two simple perovskites TbMnO3 and TbCoO3 were synthesized by a solid sintering reaction method. The Rietveld refinement results based on the x-ray powder diffraction data identified all samples as orthorhombic perovskite structures with space group Pbnm (62). The lattice parameters of Tb2MnCoO6 were a = 5.278 (3) Å, b = 5.579 (4) Å, and c = 7.513 (4) Å with a cell volume V = 221.2 (6) Å3, Z = 2. Meta-magnetic behavior was observed near 92 K for Tb2MnCoO6, which was considered to be related to the coexistence of and competition between the ferromagnetic order and antiferromagnetic order. Temperature-dependent resistance (R–T) was also measured. Compared with TbCoO3 and TbMnO3, Tb2MnCoO6 is more conductive, with its activation energy reduced from 0.3062 eV for TbCoO3 (0.2754 eV for TbMnO3) to 0.1949 eV. The results reported here can assist in understanding the multiferroic physics mechanism of double perovskite materials.

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