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Strain-affected ferroelastic domain walls in RbMnFe charge-transfer materials undergoing collective Jahn-Teller
Marius Hervé1,2, Shintaro Akagi3, Laurent Guérin1,2
1Univ Rennes, CNRS, IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes) - UMR 6251 35000 Rennes France marius.herve@univ-rennes.fr eric.collet@univ-rennes.fr.
Abstract:
Many rubidium manganese hexacyanoferrate materials, with the general formula Rb Mn[Fe(CN)6](·zH2O, exhibit diverse charge-transfer-based functionalities due to the bistability between a high temperature MnII(S = 5/2)FeIII(S = 1/2) cubic phase and a low-temperature MnIII(S = 2)FeII(S = 0) tetragonal phase. The collective Jahn-Teller distortion on the Mn sites is responsible for the cubic-to-tetragonal ferroelastic phase transition, which is associated with the appearance of ferroelastic domains. In this study, we use X-ray diffraction to reveal the coexistence of 3 types of ferroelastic tetragonal domains and estimate the spatial extension of the strain around the domain walls, which represents about 30% of the volume of the crystal.
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