Doping induced modification in magnetism and magnetoelectric coupling at room temperature in Fe2Te(1-x)NbxO6

Abstract

The polycrystalline Fe2TeO6 (FTO) and Fe2Te(1-x)NbxO6 [x = 0.5 (FTON5), x = 0.10 (FTON10)] is prepared via solid state reaction route. Comparative structural study is done by the Rietveld refinement of the powder X-ray diffraction data of all the prepared samples. We observe the presence of ferroelectricity in FTO via remanent polarization versus electric field (PE) hysteresis loop measurement with remanent polarization ∼4.85 nC/cm2. On application of 1.2 T external magnetic field, this observed remanent polarization changes 60% which confirms the presence of magnetoelectric (ME) coupling in the material. The magnetic field dependent PE loops also confirms the presence of ME coupling in both FTON5 and FTON10. In case of FTON10 the remanent polarization changes by 80% on application 1.2 T. The presence ME coupling is also observed through the nonlinear magnetoelectric voltage response on application of modulated DC magnetic field in both FTO and FTON5. This nonlinear voltage response changes to linear behavior for FTON10 due to Nb doping.