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Evidence of the Plaquette Structure of Fe 1+ x Te Iron Telluride: Mössbauer Spectroscopy Study
Author(s) -
Kiiamov Airat G.,
Tagirov Lenar R.,
Vagizov Farit G.,
Tayurskii Dmitrii A.,
Krug von Nidda HansAlbrecht,
Croitori Dorina,
Tsurkan Vladimir,
Loidl Alois
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
physica status solidi (b)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1521-3951
pISSN - 0370-1972
DOI - 10.1002/pssb.201800698
Subject(s) - mössbauer spectroscopy , stoichiometry , telluride , hyperfine structure , neutron diffraction , spectroscopy , materials science , crystallography , chemistry , condensed matter physics , analytical chemistry (journal) , atomic physics , crystal structure , physics , quantum mechanics , chromatography , metallurgy
Single‐crystalline Fe 1+ x Te iron telluride with off‐stoichiometric iron has been synthesized by the Bridgman method. The X‐ray diffraction and wave‐length‐dispersive X‐ray electron‐probe microanalysis characterization have shown Fe 1.125 Te stoichiometry of the samples. Spin‐polarized ab initio calculations of the electric field gradients around interstitial iron atoms for Fe 1.125 Te have shown that in the first and second coordination rings around interstitial iron, the spin and electron densities are strongly perturbed against the stoichiometric ones. Together with the interstitial iron this gives rise to three kinds of iron centers making up a round‐corner plaquette. The room‐temperature Mössbauer spectra measured at different incidence angles of gamma‐radiation are satisfactorily fitted utilizing the hyperfine parameters, calculated within the plaquette model. The low‐temperature data are well described with the assumption of an incommensurate collinear spin density wave (SDW) phase, showing consistency with neutron scattering data for the Fe 1.125 Te system.