An investigation of phase separation by magnetic force microscopy in La 0.45 Sr 0.55 MnO 3-δ (δ≈0.01)

Autor: Zhang Shao-Ying, Wang Zhi-Hong, Li Run-wei, Zhang Zhen-Rong, Han Bao-Shan, Shen Bao-Gen, Cheng Zhao-Hua, Sun Ji-Rong Li Qing-An
Rok vydání: 2002
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Zdroj: Chinese Physics. 11:288-292
ISSN: 1741-4199
1009-1963
DOI: 10.1088/1009-1963/11/3/317
Popis: We have found phase separation in La0.45Sr0.55MnO3-δ (LSMO) by means of electron spin resonance, magnetic force microscopy (MFM) and magnetic measurements. Ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic phases can coexist at low temperatures and ferromagnetic and paramagnetic phases coexist when the temperature lies between the Neel and Curie temperatures. The size and shape of the ferromagnetic phases (the minority phases) was first observed directly from MFM images. It is suggested that the phase separation in LSMO is not the charge segregation type, but an electroneutral type due perhaps to the nonuniform distribution of oxygen vacancies.
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