摘要
Double pyrochlore Dy2Ru207 is synthesized and its magnetism and ferroelectricity below the Ru4+ spin ordering temperature (NI00 K) are investigated. The ferroelectric transition appears at -18 K, much higher than the Dy3+ spin ordering point at -1.8 K and lower than the Ru4+ spin ordering point at -100 K. The measured electric polarization at ,-2 K is as big as 145℃/m2 in the polycrystalline samples. It is argued that the ferroelectricity is possibly ascribed to the electric dipole ordering arising from the collective monopole excitations in the Dy3+ tetrahedrons in prior to the Dy3+ spin ordering into spin-ice like state below -1.8 K.
Double pyrochlore Dy2Ru207 is synthesized and its magnetism and ferroelectricity below the Ru4+ spin ordering temperature (NI00 K) are investigated. The ferroelectric transition appears at -18 K, much higher than the Dy3+ spin ordering point at -1.8 K and lower than the Ru4+ spin ordering point at -100 K. The measured electric polarization at ,-2 K is as big as 145℃/m2 in the polycrystalline samples. It is argued that the ferroelectricity is possibly ascribed to the electric dipole ordering arising from the collective monopole excitations in the Dy3+ tetrahedrons in prior to the Dy3+ spin ordering into spin-ice like state below -1.8 K.