Zener relaxation in manganites?

We conducted internal friction (IF) and elastic modulus measurements on several manganites in the temperature range 100-500 K. The La1-xCaxMnO3 series, with x=0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.33 and 1, was studied showing the magnetic phase transitions and two additional IF peaks around 320 and 400 K, respectively. B...

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Autores: Salva, Horacio Ramon, Ghilarducci, Ada Albertina, Seiro, Silvia S., Leyva de Guglielmino, Ana Gabriela, Sanchez, Rodolfo Daniel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2006
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/68855
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/68855
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Internal Friction
Manganites
Zener Relaxation
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.3
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
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Sumario:We conducted internal friction (IF) and elastic modulus measurements on several manganites in the temperature range 100-500 K. The La1-xCaxMnO3 series, with x=0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.33 and 1, was studied showing the magnetic phase transitions and two additional IF peaks around 320 and 400 K, respectively. Both, peaks associated to relaxations, present activation enthalpies of 2-3 and 3-6 eV, whose intensity depends on x. In this work we associate the 400 K IF peak to a Zener relaxation of the cations that occupied the same crystallographic site. We believe that the 320 K IF peak is due to different crystalline states of the samples.