Abstract
Nuclear and magnetic structures of sodium ruthenate (VI) have been studied by neutron powder diffraction in the temperature range 1.5–200 K. Na2RuO4 crystallizes in the monoclinic structure, with space group P 21/c. The structure consists of apical corner sharing RuO5 trigonal bipyramids forming infinite chains running along the b axis. These infinite [ RuO3O2/2] chains form a pseudo hexagonal close packing of rods with Ru–Ru distances of 3.51 Å within the chains and 5.30–5.47 Å between the chains. At TN=37.2 K a magnetic transition leads to an antiferromagnetic state. The Ru6+ magnetic moments are ordered antiferromagnetically along the chains (b-axis), while the inter-chain interaction is ferromagnetic. A classical infinite chain model was fitted to the magnetic susceptibility data in order to estimate the strength of the nearest-neighbor exchange interactions along and between the chains, resulting in an intrachain coupling parameter of 2J=-86 K, and an interchain parameter J⊥ with |2J⊥ | = 3 K. Show more
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The European Physical Journal BVolume
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