Crystal structure, phase transition and structural deformations in iron borate (Y0.95 Bi0.05 )Fe3 (BO3 )4 in the temperature range 90–500 K
An accurate X-ray diffraction study of (Y0.95Bi0.05)Fe3(BO3)4single crystals in the temperature range 90–500 K was performed on a laboratory diffractometer and used synchrotron radiation. It was established that the crystal undergoes a diffuse structural phase transition in the temperature range 350–380 K. The complexity of localization of such a transition over temperature was overcome by means of special analysis of systematic extinction reflections by symmetry. The transition temperature can be considered to beTstr≃ 370 K. The crystal has a trigonal structure in the space groupP3121 at temperatures of 90–370 K, and it has a trigonal structure in the space groupR32 at 375–500 K. There is one type of chain formed by the FeO6octahedra along thecaxis in theR32 phase. When going into theP3121 phase, two types of nonequivalent chains arise, in which Fe atoms are separated from the Y atoms by a different distance. Upon lowering the temperature from 500 to 90 K, a distortion of the Y(Bi)O6, FeO6, B(2,3)O3coordination polyhedra is observed. The distances between atoms in helical Fe chains and Fe—O—Fe angles change non-uniformly. A sharp jump in the equivalent isotropic displacement parameters of O1 and O2 atoms within the Fe—Fe chains and fluctuations of the equivalent isotropic displacement parameters of B2 and B3 atoms were observed in the region of structural transition as well as noticeable elongation of O1, O2, B2, B3, Fe1, Fe2 atomic displacement ellipsoids. It was established that the helices of electron density formed by Fe, O1 and O2 atoms may be structural elements determining chirality, optical activity and multiferroicity of rare-earth iron borates. Compression and stretching of these helices account for the symmetry change and for the manifestation of a number of properties, whose geometry is controlled by an indirect exchange interaction between iron cations that compete with the thermal motion of atoms in the structure. Structural analysis detected these changes as variations of a number of structural characteristics in thecunit-cell direction, that is, the direction of the helices. Structural results for the local surrounding of the atoms in (Y0.95Bi0.05)Fe3(BO3)4were confirmed by EXAFS and Mössbauer spectroscopies.
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