Solids (Aug 2024)

Pressure-Induced YbFe<sub>2</sub>O<sub>4</sub>-Type to Spinel Structural Change of InGaMgO<sub>4</sub>

  • Takehiro Koike,
  • Hena Das,
  • Kengo Oka,
  • Yoshihiro Kusano,
  • Fernando Cubillas,
  • Francisco Brown Bojorqez,
  • Victor Emmanuel Alvarez-Montano,
  • Shigekazu Ito,
  • Kei Shigematsu,
  • Hayato Togano,
  • Ikuya Yamada,
  • Hiroki Ishibashi,
  • Yoshiki Kubota,
  • Shigeo Mori,
  • Noboru Kimizuka,
  • Masaki Azuma

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/solids5030028
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 3
pp. 422 – 433

Abstract

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Spinel-type InGaMgO4 with a = 8.56615(3) Å was prepared by treating layered YbFe2O4-type InGaMgO4 at 6 GPa and 1473 K. DFT calculation and Rietveld analysis of synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction data revealed the inverse spinel structure with In3+:Ga3+/Mg2+ = 0.726:0.274 in the tetrahedral site and 0.137:0.863 in the octahedral site. InGaMgO4 spinel is an insulator with an experimental band gap of 2.80 eV, and the attempt at hole doping by post-annealing in a reducing atmosphere to introduce an oxygen defect was unsuccessful. This is the first report of the bulk synthesis of AB2O4 compounds with both YbFe2O4 and spinel polymorphs.

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