TY - GEN
T1 - Stability of the orbital-modulated state in the layered perovskite manganite Sr2-xRxMnO4 (R = Pr, Nd)
AU - Inoue, Yasuhide
AU - Arao, Masazumi
AU - Shindo, Go
AU - Koyama, Yasumasa
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PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - To understand a stability of the orbital-modulated (OM) state in Sr 2-xRxMnO4 (R = Pr, Nd), the crystallographic features of oxide samples with 0.20 < x ≤ 0.50, prepared by the coprecipitation technique, have been investigated by transmission electron microscopy. When the Pr content x corresponding to the eg-electron concentration increased from x = 0, the OM state appeared in 0.20 < x ≤ 0.40 as a neighboring state of an orbital ordered (OO) state around x = 0.20. The interesting features are that around x = 0.44 there is a nanometer-sized coexisting state consisting of the OM and disordered tetragonal (DT) states, and that an average size of OM-state regions in the coexisting state decreases with increasing the eg-electron concentration. In addition, the so-called CE-type antiferromagnetic state found in Sr1.5La 0.5MnO4 is absent in the Nd and Pr cases. This suggests that the stability of the OM state is not directly associated with charge ordering of eg electrons, but basically due to only their orbital ordering.
AB - To understand a stability of the orbital-modulated (OM) state in Sr 2-xRxMnO4 (R = Pr, Nd), the crystallographic features of oxide samples with 0.20 < x ≤ 0.50, prepared by the coprecipitation technique, have been investigated by transmission electron microscopy. When the Pr content x corresponding to the eg-electron concentration increased from x = 0, the OM state appeared in 0.20 < x ≤ 0.40 as a neighboring state of an orbital ordered (OO) state around x = 0.20. The interesting features are that around x = 0.44 there is a nanometer-sized coexisting state consisting of the OM and disordered tetragonal (DT) states, and that an average size of OM-state regions in the coexisting state decreases with increasing the eg-electron concentration. In addition, the so-called CE-type antiferromagnetic state found in Sr1.5La 0.5MnO4 is absent in the Nd and Pr cases. This suggests that the stability of the OM state is not directly associated with charge ordering of eg electrons, but basically due to only their orbital ordering.
KW - Layered perovskite
KW - Manganite
KW - Orbital modulation
KW - Transmission electron microscopy
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U2 - 10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.638-642.1760
DO - 10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.638-642.1760
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:75949115801
SN - 0878492941
SN - 9780878492947
T3 - Materials Science Forum
SP - 1760
EP - 1765
BT - THERMEC 2009
A2 - Chandra, Tara
A2 - Chandra, Tara
A2 - Chandra, Tara
A2 - Wanderka, N.
A2 - Wanderka, N.
A2 - Wanderka, N.
A2 - Reimers, Walter
A2 - Reimers, Walter
A2 - Reimers, Walter
A2 - Ionescu, M.
A2 - Ionescu, M.
A2 - Ionescu, M.
PB - Trans Tech Publications Ltd
T2 - 6th International Conference on Processing and Manufacturing of Advanced Materials - THERMEC'2009
Y2 - 25 August 2009 through 29 August 2009
ER -