In the present study, we investigated magnetodielectric, magnetoelectric (ME), and angular-dependent polarization in single-crystal Fe4Nb2O9. The magnetodielectric effects in epsilon(x) (x//[100]), epsilon(y) (y//[120]), and epsilon(z) (z//[001]) are found to be significant only around T-N approximate to 95 K when magnetic fields are applied along three orthogonal x-, y- (y//[120]), and z directions. The finite polarization P-x, P-y, and P-z of 70, 100, and 30 mu C/m(2), respectively, can be induced in the antiferromagnetic phase when a finite magnetic field up to 9 T is applied along the three orthogonal directions. The angular-dependent polarization measurements verify the dominating linear ME effects below T-N. From the above experimental results, a linear ME tensor a(ij) with all nine nonzero components can be inferred, demonstrating a much lower magnetic point group of -1' for the canted antiferromagnetic configuration.
@article{arxiv.2109.11145,
title = {Probing magnetic symmetry in antiferromagnetic Fe4Nb2O9 single crystals by linear magnetoelectric tensor},
author = {Jing Zhang and Na Su and Xinrun Mi and Maocai Pi and Haidong Zhou and Jinguang Cheng and Yisheng Chai},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.11145},
year = {2021}
}