Study on Ultrasonic Anomaly with Nonstoichiometry of Sintered Magnetite near Verwey Transition Temperature

Autor: Hiroaki Kamioka, Nobuo Kashiwagura, Shiun Sakai
Rok vydání: 2002
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Zdroj: Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 41:3176-3180
ISSN: 1347-4065
0021-4922
DOI: 10.1143/jjap.41.3176
Popis: Compressional and shear wave velocities and attenuation in magnetite, which was sintered in N2 gas atmosphere, were accurately measured to investigate the Verwey transition by the pulse transmission method using a dual acoustic path across the temperature range between 78 K and 300 K. The temperature dependence of the compressional and shear wave velocities of the sintered magnetite exhibited a depression at ~ 85 K. The low transition temperature corresponds to a large nonstoichiometry very close to the oxidation limit of magnetite. Using the measured ultrasonic data, the elastic properties of sintered magnetite are discussed.
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