Hydrothermal synthesis of single crystal CoAs2O4 and NiAs2O4 compounds and their magnetic properties

摘要

The crystal structures of the hydrothermally synthesised trippkeite-related materials, CoAs _(2) O _(4) and NiAs _(2) O _(4) were investigated by means of single-crystal X-ray diffraction, Raman and infrared spectroscopy. The obtained compounds crystallise in the tetragonal crystal system ( P 4 _(2) / mbc ), with unit cell parameters at 293 K of a = 8.34530(10)/8.2277(12) ?, c = 5.62010(10)/5.6120(11) ?, V = 391.406(12)/379.90(13) ? ~(3) , Z = 4, for CoAs _(2) O _(4) and NiAs _(2) O _(4) respectively. Magnetic measurements show that the resulting single crystal of NiAs _(2) O _(4) exhibits an antiferromagnetic transition at T _(N) = 53 K in a high magnetic field of 10 kOe, as already reported in the literature. The single crystal of CoAs _(2) O _(4) reveals an interplay between ferromagnetic and a canted antiferromagnetic interactions resulting in a canted antiferromagnetic state which occurs at 105 K – the highest critical temperature among all similar structures.