TY - JOUR
T1 - Crystal structure and magnetic properties of the layered van der Waals compound VB r3
AU - Kong, Tai
AU - Guo, Shu
AU - Ni, Danrui
AU - Cava, Robert J.
N1 - Funding Information:
Crystallographic aspects of this work were supported as part of the Institute for Quantum Matter, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences under Award No. DE-SC0019331. D.N. was supported by the ARO MURI on topological insulators, Grant No. W911NF-121-0461. The crystal growth and magnetic property characterization were supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, EPiQS initiative, Grant No. GBMF-4412.
Funding Information:
Crystallographic aspects of this work were supported as part of the Institute for Quantum Matter, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences under Award No. DE-SC0019331. D.N. was supported by the ARO MURI on topological insulators, Grant No. W911NF-121-0461. The crystal growth and magnetic property characterization were supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, EPiQS initiative, Grant No. GBMF-4412.
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© 2019 American Physical Society.
PY - 2019/8/29
Y1 - 2019/8/29
N2 - Single crystals of the layered, van der Waals compound VBr3 were synthesized by a vapor transport technique, and characterized by single-crystal x-ray diffraction, temperature- and field-dependent magnetization, and temperature-dependent specific-heat measurements. VBr3 has a honeycomb-based BiI3-type structure with space group R-3 (no. 148) at 100 K, analogous to the structure of other honeycomb trihalides. Structural stacking faults were observed as evidenced by the streaking of reflections along c∗ in the diffraction data. VBr3 goes through a structural phase transition at 90.4 K and a subsequent antiferromagnetic phase transition at 26.5 K, below which the magnetic moments are primarily aligned along the c axis.
AB - Single crystals of the layered, van der Waals compound VBr3 were synthesized by a vapor transport technique, and characterized by single-crystal x-ray diffraction, temperature- and field-dependent magnetization, and temperature-dependent specific-heat measurements. VBr3 has a honeycomb-based BiI3-type structure with space group R-3 (no. 148) at 100 K, analogous to the structure of other honeycomb trihalides. Structural stacking faults were observed as evidenced by the streaking of reflections along c∗ in the diffraction data. VBr3 goes through a structural phase transition at 90.4 K and a subsequent antiferromagnetic phase transition at 26.5 K, below which the magnetic moments are primarily aligned along the c axis.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.3.084419
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.3.084419
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85072513109
SN - 2475-9953
VL - 3
JO - Physical Review Materials
JF - Physical Review Materials
IS - 8
M1 - 084419
ER -