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The effect of gold capping on magnetic and transport properties of optimally doped manganite thin films is studied. An extraordinary suppression of conductivity and magnetic properties occurs in epitaxial (001) La_0.67Sr_0.33MnO_3 (LSMO)…
Colossal magnetoresistance and field-induced ferromagnetism are well documented in manganite compounds. Since domain wall resistance contributes to magnetoresistance, data on the temperature and magnetic field dependence of the…
Temperature and current dependences of resistivity of bulk La$_{0.75}$Ca$_{0.25}$MnO$_{3}$ sample grown by the floating-zone method were studied using single ramp pulses of current. It is found that near the Curie temperature $T_C$ the…
Experimental evidence supports the double-exchange (DE) mechanism for both in-plane and c-axis conductivity in the colossal-magnetoresistive (CMR) layered manganite La1.4Sr1.6Mn2O7. Below TC, the data determine both the DE and…
A tight binding parametrization of local spin density functional band theory is combined with a dynamical mean field treatment of correlations to obtain a theory of the magnetic transition temperature, optical conductivity and T=0 spinwave…
The temperature dependence of the electronic and atomic structure of the colossal magnetoresistive oxides $La_{1-x}Sr_{x}MnO_{3}$ (x = 0.3, 0.4) has been studied using core and valence level photoemission, x-ray absorption and emission, and…
High temperature (T) studies of La_{1-x}Ca_{x}MnO_{3} show that charge and phonon transport is significantly suppressed in a narrow doping region of x~1/2 and in a wide T range up to 900 K, which accompanies anomalous broadening of x-ray…
We report electrical measurements showing the degradation processes of LaMnO$_{3-y}$ (LaMnO) in LaMnO/normal metal interface in both point contact and planar-type junctions. Immediately after the preparation of the interface, the…
A closer look at the temperature (T) dependence of magnetoresistance (MR) of two polycrystalline magnetic compounds, LaMn$_2$Ge$_2$ and SmMn$_2$Ge$_2$, previously reported by us, is made. A common feature for both these compounds is that…
The pressure dependence of the resistivity and structure of La0.60Y0.07Ca0.33MnO3 has been explored in the pressure range from 1 atm to ~7 GPa. The metal to insulator transition temperature (TMI) was found to reach a maximum and the…
We report a comprehensive investigation of La0.2Pr0.4Ca0.4MnO3 to clarify the micrometre scale phase separation phenomenon in the mixed valent manganite (La,Pr,Ca)MnO3. The compound shows multiple magnetic transitions, in which the…
We investigate a series of manganese oxides, the La0.225Pr0.4(Ca1-xSrx)0.375MnO3 system. The x = 0 sample is a prototype compound for the study of phase separation in manganites, where ferromagnetic and charge ordered antiferromagnetic…
We present our studies on polycrystalline samples of fluorine doped LaMnO3 (LaMnO3-yFy). LaMnO2.5F0.5 exhibits remarkable magnetic and electrical properties. It shows ferromagnetic and metallic behavior with a high Curie temperature of ~…
The half-doped manganite, (Eu0.4La0.1)(Sr0.4Ca0.1)MnO3, has been found to exhibit sharp step-like metamagnetic transitions below 5 K. The number of magnetic steps increases with decreasing temperature and this number suddenly rises from 3…
The spin dynamics of a single bi-layer ferromagnetic model, as proposed for a manganite system $La_{1.2}Sr_{1.8}Mn_{2}O_{7}$ as an approximate minimal model, is studied both below and above the bulk magnetic transition temperature using the…
The effect of 16O-18O isotope exchange on the electric resistivity was studied for (La(1-y)Pr(y))0.7Ca0.3MnO3 ceramic samples. Depending on y, this mixed perovskite exhibited different types of low-temperature behavior ranging from…
The results of micro-structural and detailed magnetization studies are reported here for our recently published TbSr2Cu2.7Mo0.3O7+d superconductor with a transition temperature (Tc) at as high as 80 K [1]. From XRD and EDX the sample was…
We investigated slow relaxations of the magnetostriction and residual magnetostriction of the phase-separated system (Eu$_{1-x}$Gd$_{x}$)$_{0.6}$Sr$_{0.4}$MnO$_3$, in which the metamagnetic transition from a paramagnetic insulating state to…
We report on an investigation of optical properties of multiferroic CoCr$_{2}$O$_{4}$ at terahertz frequencies in magnetic fields up to 30 T. Below the ferrimagnetic transition (94 K), the terahertz response of CoCr$_{2}$O$_{4}$ is…
We study the effect that size disorder in the cations surrounding manganese ions has on the magnetic properties of manganites. This disorder is mimic with a proper distribution of spatially disordered Manganese energies. Both, the Curie…