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Enhancing the charge ordering temperature in thin films of Pr0.5Ca0.5MnO3 by strain
- Source :
- APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, 88, 072507, Applied Physics Letters, 88 (7), 2006
- Publication Year :
- 2006
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Abstract
- We report the effects of biaxial strain on the charge ordering temperature Tco of the mixed-valent manganite perovskite oxide Pr0.5Ca0.5MnO3. Thin films were grown on SrTiO3, which has a 1.3% larger in-plane lattice parameter. Other substrates were used for comparison. Transport measurements combined with data from electron microscopy show that Tco is considerably enhanced. At thicknesses of the order of 10?nm, where the films are fully strained, Tco is above 320?K, more than 70?K above the bulk value of 250?K, while around 50?nm, where relaxation has set in, the enhancement is around 40?K. The bulk value is only reached at a thickness of about 150?nm.
- Subjects :
- internal stresses
Colossal magnetoresistance
Materials science
calcium compounds
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
Condensed matter physics
electron microscopy
Neutron diffraction
Oxide
lattice constants
Manganite
praseodymium compounds
magnetic thin films
Crystallography
Charge ordering
chemistry.chemical_compound
Lattice constant
chemistry
Thin film
Perovskite (structure)
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00036951
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, 88, 072507, Applied Physics Letters, 88 (7), 2006
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....457101262e3ac9d857ad9930cae08702