Electrical and magnetic properties of strontium substituted lanthanum manganate perovskite crystals prepared using fused salt electrolysis
Electrical and magnetic properties of strontium substituted lanthanum manganate perovskite crystals prepared using fused salt electrolysis
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熔盐电解制备锶取代锰酸镧钙钛矿晶体的电学和磁学性能
DOI:
10.1006/jssc.1999.8224
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发表时间:
1999
影响因子:
5.4
通讯作者:
M. Greenblatt
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作者:
W. Mccarroll;K. Ramanujachary;I. Fawcett;M. Greenblatt
Crystals of Sr-doped perovskite lanthanum manganates, containing 7--34 mole percent Sr have been grown by fused salt electrolysis using Cs{sub 2}-MoO{sub 4}-MoO{sub 3} solvents in stabilized zirconia crucibles. The rhombohedral crystals grow with cubic-like habits typically with facial areas 0.25--4 mm{sup 2} on edge with the average facial area decreasing with increasing Sr content. All measured crystals with Sr contents between 11.7 and 33.6 mole percent SR underwent transitions from a paramagnetic-insulator to a ferromagnetic-metallic state with values of {Tc} and T{sub IM} between 325 and > 400 K (for T{sub IM}), the values increasing with Sr content. A magnetoresistance of approximately 45% at 375 K was observed for a crystal of composition Sr{sub 0.336}La{sub 0.661}Mn{sub 0.997}O{sub 3}. The anomalously high {Tc} = 325 K for Sr{sub 0.117}La{sub 0.844}Mn{sub 0.990}O{sub 3} for a sample of such low Sr content is interpreted in terms of a high vacancy level on the A cation site which stabilizes the rhombohedral perovskite structure, which otherwise might have been expected to be orthorhombic type-1. The formation of Sr-doped lanthanum manganate perovskite at the cathode with the orthorhombic type-2 structure is interpreted in terms of an electrostatically assisted air oxidation mechanism. 42 refs., 4 figs., 2more » tabs.« less