Iso-structural phase transition in YMnO3 nanosized particles

Saurabh Tripathi; Valeri Petkov

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Iso-structural phase transition in YMnO₃ nanosized particles

Saurabh Tripathi, Valeri Petkov

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Structure studies on multiferroic YMnO₃ particles with size varying between 467 ± 42 nm (bulk) and 28 ± 3 nm was carried out using high-energy synchrotron x-ray diffraction. Analysis of the diffraction data reveals that when the particles size decreases to about 121 nm an iso-structural phase transition takes place. The transition is accompanied by a substantial change in the unit cell volume and the ratio (c/a) of the parameters of the hexagonal lattice of YMnO₃. The phase transition is similar to the one reported in bulk YMnO₃ heated to temperatures of about 920 K. In this letter, we argue that the phase transition in nanosized YMnO ₃ is of an order-disorder type.

Original language	English
Article number	061909
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	102
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4791596
State	Published - Feb 11 2013

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