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The appearance of spin-induced ferroelectric polarization in the so-called type-II multiferroic materials has received a lot of attention. The nature and mechanisms of such polarization were intensively studied using perovskite rare-earth manganites, RMnO3, as model systems. Later, multiferroic properties were discovered in some RFeO3 perovskites and possibly in some RCrO3 perovskites. However, R2NiMnO6 double perovskites have ferromagnetic structures that do not break the inversion symmetry. It was found recently that more complex magnetic structures are realized in A-site-ordered quadruple perovskites, RMn3Ni2Mn2O12. Therefore, they have potential to be multiferroics. In this work, dielectric properties in magnetic fields up to 9 T were investigated for such perovskites RMn3Ni2Mn2O12 with R = Ce to Ho and for BiMn3Ni2Mn2O12. The samples with R = Bi, Ce, and Nd showed no dielectric anomalies at all magnetic fields, and dielectric constant decreases with decreasing temperature. The samples with R = Sm to Ho showed qualitatively different behavior, when dielectric constant started increasing with decreasing temperature below certain temperatures close to the magnetic ordering temperatures, TN. This difference could suggest different magnetic ground states. The samples with R = Eu, Dy, and Ho still showed no anomalies on dielectric constant. On the other hand, peaks emerged at TN on dielectric constant in the R = Sm sample from about 2 T up to the maximum available field of 9 T. The Gd sample showed peaks on dielectric constant at TN between about 1 T and 7 T. Transition temperatures increase with increasing magnetic fields for R = Sm, and decrease for R = Gd. These findings suggest the presence of magnetic-field-induced multiferroic states in the R = Sm and Gd samples with intermediate ionic radii. Dielectric properties at different magnetic fields are also reported for Lu2NiMnO6 for comparison.

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Keyword: A-site-ordered quadruple perovskites, B-site double ordering, multiferroics, dielectric constant

Date published: 2025-09-25

Publisher: MDPI AG

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• Inorganics (ISSN: 23046740) vol. 13 issue. 10 315

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• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science JP25K01657

Manuscript type: Publisher's version (Version of record)

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First published URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/inorganics13100315

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