TY  - JOUR
AU  - Williamson, Hailey
AU  - Müller, Thomas
AU  - Angst, M.
AU  - Balakrishnan, G.
TI  - Growth of YbFe 2 O 4 single crystals exhibiting long-range charge order via the optical floating zone method
JO  - Journal of crystal growth
VL  - 475
SN  - 0022-0248
CY  - Amsterdam [u.a.]
PB  - Elsevier
M1  - FZJ-2017-04196
SP  - 44 - 48
PY  - 2017
AB  - We report the growth of YbFe2O4 single crystals via the floating zone technique, in four different oxygen partial pressures ranging from CO:CO2 = 1:5 to 1:2.5, for a cross comparison of stoichiometry effects. We obtained highly stoichiometric single crystals with sharp magnetic transitions as well as off-stoichiometric samples with smeared transitions. We also provide for the first time clear evidence of 3D long-range charge order correlations at room temperature in YbFe2O4 through high energy X-ray diffraction, identical to the analogous LuFe2O4. The correlation length obtained for YbFe2O4 in the View the MathML sourcec→ direction is at least a factor of 5 larger than that observed in LuFe2O4.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000410916300007
DO  - DOI:10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2017.05.034
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/834213
ER  -