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Effect of oxygen deficiency on Charge Ordering in La0.5Ca0.5MnO3-δ
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 July 2020
Abstract
Elastically-filtered transmission electron diffraction patterns of La0.5Ca0.5MnO3-δ have been obtained between 105K to 288K using the Leo 912 Omega. On heating La0.5Ca0.5MnO3 undergoes a transition from antiferromagnetic insulator to ferromagnetic metal (TN ∼ 150K) and then to paramagnetic insulator (Tc ∼ 230K) . The q modulation wave vector along the b-axis direction arises from charge ordering of Mn3+ and Mn4+, and orbital ordering of dz22 orbitals associated with Jahn-Teller distortions in the Mn3+O6 octahedra at low temperature. Both the intensity and the position of superlattice peaks change as a function of temperature during heating. The large incommensurability we see between 105K to 260K differs from that seen previously and proposed model. Figure 1 a) shows the lattice constants a, b, c related to the simple perovskite lattice parameters ap (ap ∼ 3.9Å) by a≈b≈ap and c≈2ap, and indicates the octahedral coordination.
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