Synthesis, nuclear structure, and magnetic properties of the perovskites: Nd0.7-xMgxSr0.3MnO3 (x=0.0, 0.1), Nd0.6Mg0.1Sr0.3Mn1-zMgzO3 (z=0.1, 0.2), LaCr1-yMnyO3 (y=0.0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3) and La1-xNdxFe0.5Cr0.5O3 (x=0.1, 0.15, 0.2) have been studied. The structure of the samples was investigated by X-ray and Neutron powder diffraction and the magnetic properties were investigated by magnetization measurements using SQUID-magnetometry. All compounds have orthorhombic structure with spacegroup Pnma (No. 62). The compounds which had the composition Nd0.7Sr0.3Mn1-yMgyO3 by preparation, were found to attain the composition Nd0.7-xMgxSr0.3MnO3 and Nd0.6Mg0.1Sr0.3Mn1-zMgzO3. The x=0.0 and 0.1 compounds order in a pure ferromagnetic structure at about 200 K, but the Mn moments become slightly tilted and attain an antiferromagnetic component below 20 K. A ferromagnetic Nd moment also appears at low temperatures. The compounds with Mg substitution y=0.2 and 0.3 do not exhibit long range magnetic order, but local ferromagnetic correlations among the Mn moments appear below 200 K. At low temperature, also a local antiferromagnetic ordering of the Nd magnetic moments occurs. In these compounds, the Mn3+/Mn4+ ratio is reduced so that the double exchange interaction is suppressed and the antiferromagnetic superexchange interaction favoured. The samples of composition LaCr1-yMnyO3 have orthorhombic structure at room temperature and below. The magnetic properties of the system are markedly affected by Mn-substitution. The parent compound LaCrO3 is a pure G-type antiferromagnet with Néel temperature 290 K. With incresing Mn-substitution, a ferromagnetic component developes in the ordered phase bcause of canting of the magnetic moments. The degree of canting increases with increasing Mn-substitution and the magnitude of the antiferromagnetic component of the moment decreases. The system La1-xNdxFe0.5Cr0.5O3 has the same antiferromagnetic G-type structure as LaCrO3, but orders already at temperatures above 400 K and develops only a very weak ferromagnetic component of the magnetic moment at low temperatures.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-4826 |
| Date | January 2005 |
| Creators | Tseggai, Mehreteab |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Fasta tillståndets fysik, Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary, info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology, 1651-6214 ; 24 |
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