Crystal Growth and Anisotropic Magnetic Properties of Quasi-2D (Fe$_{1-x}$Ni$_{x}$)$_{2}$P$_{2}$S$_{6}$

Anja U. B. Wolter; Bernd B\"uchner; Mihai-Ionut Sturza; Saicharan Aswartham; Sebastian Selter; Yuliia Shemerliuk

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Crystal Growth and Anisotropic Magnetic Properties of Quasi-2D (Fe$_{1-x}$Ni$_{x}$)$_{2}$P$_{2}$S$_{6}$

Sebastian Selter , Yuliia Shemerliuk , Mihai-Ionut Sturza , Anja U. B. Wolter , Bernd B\"uchner , Saicharan Aswartham This is my paper

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We report the crystal growth by chemical vapor transport together with a thorough structural and magnetic characterization of the quasi-2D magnets (Fe$_{1-x}$Ni$_x$)$_2$P$_2$S$_6$ with $x_\textrm{Ni} = \textrm{0, 0.3, 0.5, 0.7, 0.9 & 1}$. As-grown crystals exhibit a layered morphology with weak van der Waals interactions between layers parallel to the crystallographic $ab$ plane of the monoclinic structure in the space group $C2/m$ (No. 12). Magnetization measurements reveal an antiferromagnetic ground state for all grown crystals. In the ordered state, the magnetization along different crystallographic directions is in agreement with an Ising anisotropy for $0 \leq x \leq 0.9$ and only for Ni$_2$P$_2$S$_6$ a different behavior is observed which is line with an anisotropic Heisenberg or XXZ model description. This striking abrupt change of anisotropy at a critical Ni concentration is coupled to a change in the width of the maximum in the magnetization around $T_\textrm{max}$. Furthermore, all intermediate compounds $0 < x \leq 0.9$ exhibit an anisotropic magnetization already in the paramagnetic state similar to the parent compound Fe$_2$P$_2$S$_6$.

Crystal Growth and Anisotropic Magnetic Properties of Quasi-2D (Fe$_{1-x}$Ni$_{x}$)$_{2}$P$_{2}$S$_{6}$

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