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Crystal structure inside calcium fluoride with an implanted muon
Credit: SJB

Professor Stephen Blundell

Professor of Physics

Research theme

  • Quantum materials

Sub department

  • Condensed Matter Physics

Research groups

  • Muons and magnets
Stephen.Blundell@physics.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: 01865 (2)72347
Clarendon Laboratory, room 108
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Muon spin relaxation investigation of magnetic ordering in the hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites [(CH3)2NH 2]M(HCOO)3 (M=Ni,Co,Mn,Cu )

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 82:1 (2010)

Authors:

PJ Baker, T Lancaster, I Franke, W Hayes, SJ Blundell, FL Pratt, P Jain, ZM Wang, M Kurmoo

Abstract:

Muon spin relaxation measurements are reported on samples of dimethylammonium metal formates containing magnetic divalent nickel, cobalt, manganese, and copper ions. These hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites exhibit weak ferromagnetism and are, apart from the copper system, multiferroics with well-separated magnetic and antiferroelectric transitions. We use muons to follow the sublattice magnetization, observing the effect of the spin reorientation transitions below TN and the criticality approaching TN. The multiferroic samples have three-dimensional antiferromagnetic interactions but the copper sample shows quasi-one-dimensional behavior due to its Jahn-Teller distorted structure with a ratio of its interchain and intrachain exchange constants | J′ /J | ≃0.037. © 2010 The American Physical Society.
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Giant magnetic hardness in the synthetic mineral ferrimagnet K 2CoII3(OH)2(SO4) 3(H2O)2

Chemistry of Materials 22:13 (2010) 4090-4095

Authors:

S Vilminot, PJ Baker, SJ Blundell, T Sugano, G André, M Kurmoo

Abstract:

Wepresent the synthesis, single-crystal X-ray (173 K) and powder neutron (2-30 K) structures and its thermal, optical and magnetic properties of K 2CoII3(OH)2(SO4) 2(H2O)2. It is a ferrimagnet (TC= 29.7 K) constructed of Co3(OH)2 diamond chains connected by sulfate and it displays hysteresis loops ranging from being soft with nearly zero coercivity between 29 and 10 K to very hard reaching coercive field exceeding 70 kOe at 1.8 K. This dramatic change is associated with the changes in domain shape due to the strong exchange anisotropy. Considerable frequency dependence of the acsusceptibilities is observed in the ordered state.Measurements on a single crystal have established the magnetic axes to be a-axis (easy), b-axis (intermediate), and c-axis (hard). © 2010 American Chemical Society.
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Muon spin relaxation investigation of magnetic ordering in the hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites [(CH3)2NH2]M(HCOO)3, M = Ni,Co,Mn,Cu

(2010)

Authors:

PJ Baker, T Lancaster, I Franke, W Hayes, SJ Blundell, FL Pratt, P Jain, Z-M Wang, M Kurmoo
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Superconductivity and fluctuating magnetism in quasi two-dimensional kappa-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu[N(CN)2]Br probed with implanted muons

(2010)

Authors:

T Lancaster, SJ Blundell, FL Pratt, JA Schlueter
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A Paradigm Called Magnetism, by S. Dattagupta

Contemporary Physics Taylor & Francis 51:4 (2010) 380-380
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