The domain structure of ferroelastic BiVO<sub>4</sub> studied by magnetic resonances
Tae Ho Yeom; Sung Ho Choh; Kyu Jeong Song; Min Su Jang; Tae Ho Yeom; Dept. of Phys., Korea Univ., Seoul, South Korea; Sung Ho Choh; Dept. of Phys., Korea Univ., Seoul, South Korea; Kyu Jeong Song; Dept. of Phys., Korea Univ., Seoul, South Korea; Min Su Jang; Dept. of Phys., Korea Univ., Seoul, South Korea
Журнал:
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
Дата:
1994-01-10
Аннотация:
The domain structure of the ferroelastic BiVO<sub>4</sub> single crystal has been investigated using the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) of <sup>51</sup>V and by the electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) of the Mn<sup>2+</sup> ions contained in the crystal as an impurity. The 14 resonance lines of <sup>51</sup>V (I=<sup>7</sup>/<sub>2</sub>) in a BiVO<sub>4</sub> crystal with the twin domain were measured in the crystallographic a-b (or c-b) and c-a (or a-c) planes with an FT NMR spectrometer. Two sets of Mn<sup>2</sup>+ EPR signals were also obtained in the c-a plane. These two sets of NMR and EPR signals originate from the twin-domain structure. From these two sets of experimental data from <sup>51</sup>V NMR and Mn<sup>2+</sup> EPR, it is confirmed that the BiVO<sub>4</sub> single crystal has the prominent (W-plane) domain wall reported previously. The investigated domain structure is found to be stable with time in contrast with a previous report by Baran et al. The previous model of the twinning mechanism derived from NMR and X-ray diffraction data has been improved by employing the EPR results. The observed W plane of the domain wall in BiVO<sub>4</sub> can be explained by the ferroelastic species 4/mmm F 2/m instead of 4/m F 2/m.
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