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Direct imaging of nanoscale phase separation in La0.55Ca0.45MnO3: relationship to colossal magnetoresistance
Release time:2022-07-06
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- Journal:
- Phys. Rev. Lett.
- Abstract:
- A nanoscale phase is known to coincide with colossal magnetoresistance (CMR) in manganites, but its volume fraction is believed to be too small to affect CMR. Here we provide scanning-electron nanodiffraction images of nanoclusters as they form and evolve with temperature in La1-xCaxMnO3, x = 0.45. They are not doping inhomogeneities, and their structure is that of the bulk compound at x = 0.60, which at low temperatures is insulating. Their volume fraction peaks at the CMR critical temperature and is estimated to be 22% at finite magnetic fields. In view of the known dependence of the nanoscale phase on magnetic fields, such a volume fraction can make a significant contribution to the CMR peak.
- Note:
- (highlighted in Physics Today, Nov. issue, p20-23; highlighted in Parity (in Japanese))
- First Author:
- Tao, J.; Niebieskikwiat D.; Varela M.; Luo W.; Schofield M. A; Zhu Y.; Salamon M. B.; Zuo J. M.; Pantelides S. T.; Pennycook S. J.
- Volume:
- 103,
- Page Number:
- 097202
- Translation or Not:
- no
- Date of Publication:
- 2009-08-06
- Links to published journals:
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.097202
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