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Transmission electron microscopy of La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 thin films
- Source :
- Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. 211:84-90
- Publication Year :
- 2000
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2000.
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Abstract
- La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 (LCMO) films grown on (0 0 1) surfaces of various (pseudo-) cubic substrates, MgO, SrTiO3, LaSrGaO4 and YAlO3, were studied by means of transmission electron microscopy. In all cases, the (0 0 1) plane of LCMO perovskite primitive cell is parallel to the substrate surface. The film on SrTiO3 showed the single-variant structure with many twin boundaries while the films on other substrates had the three-variant structure where three [0 1 0] axes of the orthorhombic unit cell are perpendicular to each other. The LCMO cell on SrTiO3 was expanded by about 1% in the film plane and shrank by about 1% out of the plane. Many planar defects and intergrown grains were observed in the film on MgO. They originated at the substrate surface.
Details
- ISSN :
- 03048853
- Volume :
- 211
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........80bb9872f04b39d53d2a32b59c16a745