Influence of magnetic field on the dielectric characteristics in manganese sulfide substituted with thulium

The properties of a solid solution of thulium-substituted manganese sulfide prepared by melting the ini-tial pure samples of manganese sulfide and thulium sulfide are studied. X-ray diffraction analysis was car-ried out. The face-centered cubic lattice is determined, and the decrease in the intensity of the peaks is found. Dielectric permittivity was measured in the frequency range 102–106 Hz and temperatures 300–500 K in magnetic fields up to 12 kOe in TmxMn1-xS solid solutions (0 < x < 0.15). From the frequency depend-ence of the permittivity, the relaxation time and the relaxation mechanism of the dipole moments are found. The leakage current is excluded, and the contribution of migration polarization due to charges in the re-gion with chemical phase separation is estimated. The real and imaginary components of the permittivity of TmxMn1-xS samples are described in the Debye model. The maximum of the imaginary component of the permittivity shifts towards higher frequencies upon heating, and the relaxation time is described by the Ar-rhenius function. Dielectric losses are caused by electron-phonon interaction. The frequency of the crosso-ver from Debye relaxation to relaxation conduction associated with the absorption and emission of pho-nons is found. The crossover frequency increases as the sample is heated according to a power law. In a magnetic field, the permittivity decreases and the largest change of 2.5 % is achieved at T = 450 K. At oth-er temperatures, the magnetocapacitance does not exceed 0.5 %. The shift of the maximum of the imagi-nary component of the permittivity to low frequencies in a magnetic field leads to a change in the sign of dielectric losses from positive to negative. A qualitative difference in ε(ω) is established in the vicinity of the concentration of thulium ion flow through the FCC lattice, where the permittivity is not described in the Debye model and there is no magnetocapacitance. The mechanism for reducing dielectric losses in a mag-netic field is determined.