Abstract
We investigated the effect of Al doping in magnetic properties of the Y-type hexaferrite BaSrZn(FeAl)O (), which exhibit field-induced magnetoelectric polarization. We find that Al doping increases the pitch of a spin helix and enhances -axis magnetization, stabilizing longitudinal conical phases. These conical phases eventually collapse at 0.10. These results suggest that competitions between easy-axis and easy-plane anisotropy fields play a key role in generating stable magnetoelectric polarization in Y-type hexaferrites.
3 More- Received 10 November 2011
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.85.064402
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