Hidden relationship between the electrical conductivity and the Mn 2p core-level photoemission spectra in La1-xSrxMnO3
| Autor: | Hishida, T., Ohbayashi, K., Saitoh, T. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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| Zdroj: | J. Appl. Phys. 113, 043710 (2013) |
| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1063/1.4789315 |
| Popis: | Core-level electronic structure of La1-xSrxMnO3 has been studied by x-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS). We first report, by the conventional XPS, the well-screened shoulder structure in Mn 2p3/2 peak, which had been observed only by hard x-ray photoemission spectroscopy so far. Multiple-peak analysis revealed that the Mn4+ spectral weight was not proportional to the nominal hole concentration x, indicating that a simple Mn3+/Mn4+ intensity ratio analysis may result in a wrong quantitative elemental analysis. Considerable weight of the shoulder at x=0.0 and the fact that the shoulder weight was even slightly going down from x=0.2 to 0.4 were not compatible with the idea that this weight simply represents the metallic behavior. Further analysis found that the whole Mn 2p3/2 peak can be decomposed into four portions, the Mn4+, the (nominal) Mn3+, the shoulder, and the other spectral weight located almost at the Mn3+ location. We concluded that this weight represents the well-screened final state at Mn4+ sites, whereas the shoulder is known as that of the Mn3+ states. We found that the sum of these two spectral weight has an empirical relationship to the conductivity evolution with x. Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Journal of Applied Physics |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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