SUGIYAMA, J.; NOZAKI, H.; BREWER, J. H.; ANSALDO, E. J.; MORRIS, G. D.; DELMAS, Claude

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.72.144424

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SUGIYAMA, J.
Central Research and Development Laboratory

NOZAKI, H.
Central Research and Development Laboratory

BREWER, J. H.
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research [CIFAR]
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Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015). 2005, vol. vol. 72, n° 14, p. p. 144424 (9 p.)

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Magnetism of the simplest layered cobaltite LixCoO2 with x=1.0, 0.95, and 0.7 has been investigated by positive muon spin rotation and relaxation (µ+SR) spectroscopy together with magnetic susceptibility measurements, using polycrystalline samples in the temperature range between 300 and 1.8 K. Weak transverse field µ+SR showed the appearance of magnetism below ~65 K (=Tcun) for the sample with x=1.0. The volume fraction of the magnetic phase at 1.8 K is determined to be ~20% for LiCoO2, strongly suggesting that the observed magnetism is not induced by impurities but is an intrinsic behavior. This indicates that either a charge disproportionation (2Co3+->Co2++Co4+), a spin state transition (t6/2g->t5/2ge1g), or an appearance of magnetic Co3+ at surface occurs below 65 K. Zero field µ+SR spectra of LiCoO2 consist mainly of a slow relaxing signal due to random fields even at 1.8 K plus a small amount of a fast relaxing signal and an oscillating component, implying the presence of an antiferromagnetic order, as in the case of NaxCoO2 with x0.75. For Li-deficient LixCoO2 samples, T decreases with decreasing x from 50 K for x=0.95 to 25 K for x=0.7. The volume fraction of the magnetic phase is however almost independent of x and is estimated as 20% at 1.8 K, but no oscillations were observed in the zero field spectrum.< Réduire

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Magnetic phase boundaries

Muon spin rotation

Relaxation

Spin-density waves

Thermoelectric and thermomagnetic effects

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Frustrated magnetism in the two-dimensional triangular lattice of LixCoO2

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