Magnetic structural studies of inverse spinel Co2SnO4 single crystal

The compound Co2SnO4 is an inverse spinel and it can be expressed as "Co2+(Co2+/Sn4+)O4. It exhibits a ferrimagnetic transition with a compensate transition around 11K due to two Co2+ (tetrahedral and octahedral) sublattices. The B site is partially occupied by non-magnetic Sn4+ and the magnetism is associated with network of Co2+ ions distributed over the A site and half of the B sites. We have grown the Co2SnO4 single crystal of size 1mm3 for the first-time using flux technique and it is ideal system to measure the Co2+ magnetism with non-magnetic Sn on the B site. Our single crystal sample is characterised using single crystal x-ray and magnetometry. Recently, we have measured the diffused scattering at room temperature on the SXD beam line using Xpress time. The experiment was successful and now we would like to study the Co2+ magnetism at low temperature.