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Structural and MAGNETIC Properties of mechanically activated oxide HoMnO3 V. Mitrofanov, G. Kozhina, O. Fedorova Institute of Metallurgy of UB RAS, 101, Amundsen st., Ekaterinburg, Russia vyam@mail.ru Introduction Manganese oxides of the general formula RMnO3 (R = rare-earth element) have been intensely studied in recent years owing to the exciting properties as the colossal magnetoresistance (CMR) and multiferroic effects [1]. Pure polycrystalline hexagonal multiferroic HoMnO3 (h-HoMnO3) can be synthesized by the conventional solid-state reaction method. However, h-HoMnO3 can be converted to the corresponding orthorhombic perovskite phase (o-HoMnO3) through a high pressure treatment. Hexagonal HoMnO3 oxide becomes magnetically ordered at TN?≈?72 K, and another two magnetic transitions take place at lower temperatures [1-8]. Neutron powder diffraction measurements demonstrate that, below the ordering temperature TN, the moments of the Mn3+ cations adopt a triangular spin arrangement, the magnetic moments lying in the basal plane and parallel to the [100] axis [2]. At TSR = (32-45) K [1-8], the moments reorientate within the basal plane and become aligned perpendicularly to the initial direction [2]. Mn3+ spin rotation is accompanied by a partial ordering of the Ho3+ spins [2, 9, 10]. The magnetic moment of the Ho3+ ion is completely ordered below T(Ho3+) ( 5 K combined with another rotation of Mn spins in the basal plane [10]. Considerable variation in the TSR values is associated with the choice of initial reagents, synthesis conditions of single crystals and ceramic materials [1-8]. The magnetic properties and the low-temperature magnetic structures of the orthorhombic perovskite o-HoMnO3 have been studied on polycrystalline samples by A. Mu?oz et al [11]. It was shown that o-HoMnO3 exhibits three singularities at TN =41 K, T1 ( 26 K, and T2?(?6.5 K. Below TN =?41 K, the Mn3+ magnetic moments become ordered in an antiferromagnetic arrangement, adopting a modula