Synthesis and physical properties of quasi-one-dimensional magnetic material Ca3LiRuO6
Abstract
Ca3LiRuO6 single crystals were grown using the flux method, magnetic properties measurement results along different directions of needle-like single crystals are reported for the first time and show Ca3LiRuO6 occurs a paramagnetic (PM)-weak ferromagnetic (FM) transition at a temperature Tc = 120 K, also the magnetic moment aligns in the ab plane. Although Ca3LiRuO6 is characterized by one-dimensional configuration in crystallographic structure, it has three-dimensional (3D) magnetic order, the value of Tc is far below the magnitude of Curie–Weiss temperature. Θcw ≈ -306 K indicates complex nature of the magnetism is in this compound.