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Black crystals of the mixed-valence osmate(V,VI) Sr4Os3O12 were grown via a gas phase reaction in an evacuated silica tube. The material is attracted to a permanent magnet at room temperature (295 K) but loses this property when heated or…
Magnetic excitations in an array of (VO)2P2O7 single crystals have been measured using inelastic neutron scattering. Until now, (VO)2P2O7 has been thought of as a two-leg antiferromagnetic Heisenberg spin ladder with chains running in the…
A series of oxytetrahalides WO$X_4$ ($X$: a halogen element) that form quasi-one-dimensional chains is investigated using first-principles calculations. The crystal structures, electronic structures, as well as ferroelectric and…
Magnetometry, electrical transport, and neutron scattering measurements were performed on single crystals of the Fe^{4+}-containing perovskite-related phase Sr_3Fe_2O_7-x as a function of oxygen content. Although both the crystal structure…
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) of 31P and 51V nuclei has been measured in a spin-1/2 alternating-chain compound (VO)_2P_2O_7. By analyzing the temperature variation of the 31P NMR spectra, we have found that (VO)_2P_2O_7 has two…
The structural and magnetic properties of YVO3, NdVO3 and TbVO3 were investigated by single-crystal and powder neutron diffraction. YVO3 shows a structural phase transition at 200 K from an orthorhombic structure with the space group Pbnm…
We report on structural, magnetic and electrical properties of Sr-doped LaMnO_3 single crystals for doping levels 0.4 < x < 0.85. The complex structural and magnetic phase diagram can only be explained assuming significant contributions…
The magnetic behaviour of the low-dimensional Vanadium-oxides Sr2V3O9 and Ba2V3O9 was investigated by means of magnetic susceptibility and specific heat measurements. In both compounds, the results can be very well described by an S=1/2…
We report measurements on Ti$_4$MnBi$_2$, where a crystal structure involving linear chains of Mn ions suggests one-dimensional magnetic character. The electrical resistivity is metallic, consistent with the results of electronic structure…
Through powder x-ray diffraction we have investigated the structural behavior of SmVO3, in which orbital and magnetic degrees of freedom are believed to be closely coupled to the crystal lattice. We have found, contrary to previous reports,…
The large single crystals of SrSnP were prepared using Sn self-flux method. The superconductivity in the tetragonal SrSnP is observed with the critical temperature of ~2.3 K. The results of a crystallographic analysis, superconducting…
The crystallographic and magnetic properties of the cleavable 4d3 transition metal compound a-MoCl3 are reported, with a focus on the behavior above room temperature. Crystals were grown by chemical vapor transport and characterized using…
The magnetic, dielectric and structural properties of type-I multiferroic KNiPO$_4$ have been investigated by neutron powder diffraction, magnetization, dielectric and high temperature synchrotron-XRD measurements. Below the N\'{e}el…
Single crystals of Zn_(1-x)Mn_xIn_2Se_4 were grown by the chemical vapour phase transport technique (CVT). The Mn concentration was varied from x=1 to x=0.01. Through X-rays powder diffraction patterns and Laue diagrams of single crystals…
The solid solution Ga1-xGexV4S8 (x = 0 - 1) was synthesized by solid state reactions and characterized by temperature-dependent x-ray powder diffraction and static magnetic susceptibility measurements. The compounds crystallize in the cubic…
We report structural, magnetization, electrical resistivity and nuclear- and electron spin resonance data of the complex transition metal oxide In_2VO_5 in which structurally well-defined V-O chains are realized. An itinerant character of…
Neutron scattering studies on a single crystal of the highly-correlated electron system, La1-xSrxMnO3 with x~0.3, have been carried out elucidating both the spin and lattice dynamics of this metallic ferromagnet. We report a large measured…
Identifying and characterizing new magnetic systems with Co2+ ions can enhance our understanding of quantum behavior since Co2+ can host a pseudospin-1/2 magnetic ground state. Understanding the magnetic ground state and the phase diagrams…
Single crystal synthesis, structure, electric polarization and heat capacity measurements on hexagonal InMnO3 show that this small R ion in the RMnO3 series is ferroelectric (space group P63cm). Structural analysis of this system reveals a…
A new technique for searching low-dimensional compounds on the basis of structural data is presented. The sign and strength of all magnetic couplings at distances up to 12 A in five predicted new antiferromagnetic zigzag spin-1/2 chain…