Successive phase transitions in IrSn (: La and Ce) investigated using neutron and X-ray diffraction

Nakazato, Seiya*; Iwasa, Kazuaki*; Hashimoto, Daisuke*; Shiozawa, Mami*; Kuwahara, Keitaro*; Nakao, Hironori*; Sagayama, Hajime*; Ishikado, Motoyuki*; Ohara, Takashi; Nakao, Akiko*; et al.

JPS Conference Proceedings (Internet), 30, p.011128_1 - 011128_6, 2020/03

https://doi.org/10.7566/JPSCP.30.011128

Domain structure and electronic state in P3HT:PCBM blend thin films by soft X-ray resonant scattering

Kubota, Masato; Sakurai, Takeaki*; Miyadera, Tetsuhiko*; Nakao, Hironori*; Sugita, Takeshi*; Yoshida, Yuji*

Journal of Applied Physics, 120(16), p.165501_1 - 165501_5, 2016/10

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4965988

We performed soft X-ray resonant scattering experiments on P3HT:PCBM blend thin films to reveal the domain structure and electronic state, where P3HT and PCBM mean regioregular poly (3-hexylthiophene) and [6,6]-phenyl-C61-buteric acid methyl ester, respectively. We measured two films, where chloroform (CF sample) and 1,2-dichlorobenzene (DCB sample) are used as solvents in the fabrication process. There is negligible X-ray incident angle dependence of the X-ray absorption spectra at the S -absorption edge in the CF sample, whereas the DCB sample exhibits clear incident angle dependence. We obtained the wave-number resolved spectra at = (1, 0, 0) for P3HT molecules in both samples. The packing growth of P3HT molecules is revealed to be much more developed in the DCB sample than the CF sample. In addition, the electronic structure at local sulfur element sites clearly changes for both of the samples.

Magnetic and electronic properties of (LaMnO)(SrMnO) superlattice revealed by resonant soft X-ray scattering

Kubota, Masato; Yamada, Hiroyuki*; Nakao, Hironori*; Okamoto, Jun*; Yamasaki, Yuichi*; Sawa, Akihito*; Murakami, Yoichi*

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 53(5S1), p.05FH07_1 - 05FH07_5, 2014/05

https://doi.org/10.7567/JJAP.53.05FH07

Spin state of Co in LaCo RhO investigated by structural phenomena

Asai, Shinichiro*; Okazaki, Ryuji*; Terasaki, Ichiro*; Yasui, Yukio*; Kobayashi, Wataru*; Nakao, Akiko*; Kobayashi, Kensuke*; Kumai, Reiji*; Nakao, Hironori*; Murakami, Yoichi*; et al.

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 82(11), p.114606_1 - 114606_6, 2013/11

https://doi.org/10.7566/JPSJ.82.114606

Neutron and synchrotron X-ray diffraction for LaCo RhO have been carried out in order to investigate the structural properties related with the spin state of Co ions. We have found that the values of the Co(Rh)-O bond lengths in the Co(Rh)O octahedron of LaCoRhO are nearly identical at 10 K. The lattice volume for the Rh substituted samples decreases with the thermal expansion coefficient similar to that of LaCoO from room temperature, and ceases to decrease around 70 K. These experimental results favor a mixed state consisting of the high-spin state and low-spin state Co ions, and suggest that the high-spin state Co ions are thermally excited in addition to those pinned by the substituted Rh ions.

Magnetic phase diagrams of YVO and TbVO under high pressure

Bizen, Daisuke*; Nakao, Hironori*; Iwasa, Kazuaki*; Murakami, Yoichi*; Osakabe, Toyotaka; Fujioka, Jun*; Yasue, Toshio*; Miyasaka, Shigeki*; Tokura, Yoshinori*

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 81(2), p.024715_1 - 024715_6, 2012/02

https://doi.org/10.1143/JPSJ.81.024715

The magnetic phase diagrams for VO ( = Y, Tb) were determined by low temperature and high pressure neutron-diffraction techniques. We found that the magnetic ground state in TbVO changes from -type spin ordering (-SO) to -type spin ordering (-SO) on application of pressure. The transition of the magnetic ground state also indicates that the ground state of the orbital ordering changes from -type orbital ordering (-OO) to -type orbital ordering (-OO). In YVO, the -SO and -OO phases set in simultaneously up to 6.2 GPa, and the disorder-[-SO, -OO] phase transition appears above 6 GPa. This is the first observation of a simultaneous spin and orbital order-disorder phase transition in perovskite-type transition-metal oxides MO. The [-SO, -OO] phase is strongly stabilized with increasing pressure, and both the covalency effect and the superexchange interaction play roles in this stabilization.

Contribution of intermediate submicrometer structures to physical properties near in Pb(ZnNb)O-9%PbTiOPbTiO

Owada, Kenji; Mizuki, Junichiro; Namikawa, Kazumichi*; Matsushita, Mitsuyoshi*; Shimomura, Susumu*; Nakao, Hironori*; Hirota, Kazuma*

Physical Review B, 83(22), p.224115_1 - 224115_7, 2011/06

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.83.224115

Complementary use of coherent X-ray diffraction (CXD), X-ray diffuse scattering, conventional X-ray diffraction techniques and dielectric measurements has enabled us to investigate Pb(ZnNb)O-9%PbTiO with a multiple-length-scale approach from the macroscale (lattice constants, bulk averaged) and microscale to the nanoscale (polar nanoregions (PNRs)) and discuss the contribution of each scale to the dielectric permittivity.

X-ray intensity fluctuation spectroscopy using nanofocused hard X-rays; Its application to study of relaxor ferroelectrics

Owada, Kenji; Namikawa, Kazumichi*; Shimomura, Susumu*; Nakao, Hironori*; Mimura, Hidekazu*; Yamauchi, Kazuto*; Matsushita, Mitsuyoshi*; Mizuki, Junichiro

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 49(2), p.020216_1 - 020216_3, 2010/02

https://doi.org/10.1143/JJAP.49.020216

Devil's flower resulting from a successive charge disproportionation of NaVO; Understanding of the details of the Ising spin and the competitive interactions which made the devil's flower bloom

Owada, Kenji; Fujii, Yasuhiko; Muraoka, Jiro*; Nakao, Hironori*; Murakami, Yoichi*; Noda, Yukio*; Osumi, Hiroyuki*; Ikeda, Naoshi*; Shobu, Takahisa; Isobe, Masahiko*; et al.

Hoshako, 21(2), p.87 - 96, 2008/03

http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/10020476047

Devil's flower has been found in a temperature-pressure phase diagram of NaVO, which shows a charge disproportionation (CD) at ambient pressure. By a complementary use of an X-ray structural analysis and a resonant X-ray diffraction, which is sensitive to CD, we have investigated the structural relationship between two ground states appeared in lower and higher pressure regions including the charge arrangements. It has been clarified that two equivalent types of charge arrangement in CD correspond to the Ising variable in NaVO. The atomic shifts are regarded as linearly coupled to the Ising spins. The results lead us to the conclusion that it is the first time that the devil's flower blooms in a charge-disproportionation system. The results also lead us to a hypothesis that the competitive interactions between a Ising spins may result from the Ising spin-phonon coupling.

Resonant X-ray magnetic diffraction experiments on SmBC

Inami, Toshiya; Homma, Tetsuo*; Tsutsui, Satoshi*; Indo, Kentaro*; Onodera, Hideya*; Ishii, Kenji; Owada, Kenji; Kuzushita, Kaori*; Nakao, Hironori*; Murakami, Yoichi*

Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 310(2, Part1), p.748 - 750, 2007/03

We investigated successive phase transitions in SmBC at =37K and =51K by means of resonant X-ray diffraction. Strong resonant diffraction signal is observed at the 101 reflection below at the Sm edge, whereas in the intermediate phase signals appear at incommensurate positions =(1, ,1) where =0.13. Accordingly, the successive phase transitions in SmBC is found to be commensurate-to-incommensurate magnetic phase transitions.

Discovery of the "Devil's flower" in a charge-ordering system; Synchrotron X-ray diffraction study of NaVO

Owada, Kenji; Fujii, Yasuhiko; Nakao, Hironori*; Murakami, Yoichi*; Isobe, Masahiko*; Ueda, Yutaka*

Modern Physics Letters B, 20(5), p.199 - 214, 2006/02

https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217984906010548

We review recent synchrotron diffraction studies of NaVO. The resonant X-ray scattering performed on a monoclinically-split single domain of NaVO shows a critically enhanced contrast between V and V ions. The results has led us to the unequivocal conclusion of the charge-order pattern of low-temperature phase of NaVO below = 35 K. In spite of the possible four types of configuration of the zig-zag-type charge-order patterns in the -plane (A, A', B and B'), the stacking sequence along the -axis is determined as the AAA'A' type by comparison with model calculations. By assigning the A and A' configurations to Ising spins and , one can reasonably explain the previously discovered "devil's staircase"-type behavior with respect to the modulation of layer-stacking sequences at high pressures and low temperatures, which clearly resembles the global phase diagram theoretically predicted by the ANNNI model, called "devil's flower". This is the first case that the devil's flower appears in such a charge-ordering system, where charge-order patterns are regarded as Ising spins.