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Phase separated behavior in Yttrium doped CaMnO3

Materials Science 2016-02-09 v1

Abstract

The effect of electron doping on the structural, transport, and magnetic properties of Mn (IV) - rich Ca1-xYxMnO3 (x < 0.2) samples have been investigated using neutron diffraction, neutron depolarization, magnetization and resistivity techniques. The temperature dependence of resistivity follows the small polaron model and the activation energy exhibits a minimum for x=0.1 sample. A phase separated magnetic ground state consisting of ferromagnetic domains (~7microns) embedded in G-type antiferromagnetic matrix is observed in the sample, x = 0.1. The transition to the long range magnetically ordered state in this sample is preceded by a Griffiths phase. On lowering temperature below 300K a structural transition from orthorhombic structure (Pnma) to a monoclinic structure (P21/m) is observed in the case of x=0.2 sample. The ferromagnetic behavior in this case is suppressed and the antiferromagnetic ordering is described by coexisting C-type and G-type magnetic structures corresponding to the monoclinic and orthorhombic phases, respectively.<

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@article{arxiv.1602.02479,
  title  = {Phase separated behavior in Yttrium doped CaMnO3},
  author = {Neetika Sharma and A. Das and C. L. Prajapat and Amit Kumar and M. R. Singh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.02479},
  year   = {2016}
}
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