Abstract
To specify preferential occupation sites of Co substituents and to clarify charge and spin states of Co ions in (La, Co)-cosubstituted hexagonal magnetoplumbite-type (M-type) Sr ferrite (), and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra are measured under zero and external magnetic fields using powdered and single crystalline specimens. For comparison, NMR investigations of nondoped and La- or Co-doped M-type Sr ferrites are also performed. Ferrimagnetic M-type Sr ferrite contains the following five crystallographic Fe sites: the majority spin sites , , and , and the minority spin sites and . Based on and NMR, a plausible model of (La, Co)-codoped Sr ferrite is deduced. To a considerable degree, the charge compensation between and works in the equal (La, Co)-codoped case, where more than half of the Co ions are considered to be present in the minority spin sites at the center of the oxygen tetrahedra, with the state carrying a small orbital moment owing to spin-orbit interaction. The remaining small number of high-spin (, ions with unquenched orbital moments would be distributed to the other octahedral , , and sites.
7 More- Received 10 November 2017
- Revised 19 June 2018
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.98.064403
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