Correlation between electrical and magnetic properties of phase-separated manganites studied with a general effective medium model
✍ Scribed by J. Sacanell; M. Quintero; F. Parisi; L. Ghivelder; A.G. Leyva; P. Levy
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 203 KB
- Volume
- 398
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0921-4526
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✦ Synopsis
We have performed electrical resistivity and DC magnetization measurements as a function of temperature, on polycrystalline samples of phase-separated La 5/8Ày Pr y Ca 3/8 MnO 3 (y ¼ 0.3). We have used the general effective medium theory to obtain theoretical resistivity vs. temperature curves corresponding to different fixed ferromagnetic (FM) volume fraction values, assuming that the sample is a mixture of typical metallic-like and insulating manganites. By comparing this data with our experimental resistivity curves we have obtained the relative FM volume fraction of our sample as a function of temperature. This result matches with the corresponding magnetization data in excellent agreement, showing that a mixed-phase scenario is the key element to explain both the magnetic and transport properties in the present compound.