La0.67Ca0.33MnO3薄膜中的矫顽力随膜厚与衬底的变化

系统研究了衬底为SrTiO3和LaAlO3上的La0.67Ca0.33MnO3薄膜中的矫顽力随厚度和应变的变化。结构分析表明薄膜为（001）方向织构，而且薄膜中的晶粒尺寸随着薄膜厚度的减小而减小。磁测量表明矫顽力先随着膜厚的减小而增加，在t=10-25nm附近到达一极大值。随后，矫顽力随厚度的减小而降低。还得出矫顽力的大小与测量方向有关：t≥25nm (t≤10nm)时，难磁化方向的矫顽力大于（小于）易磁化方向的矫顽力。据此，我们提出：在厚膜（t≥25nm）中，矫顽力变化由畴壁钉扎机制决定；在超薄膜（t≤10nm）中，则与磁畴的形核机制有关。根据t= 5、10、25、400nm的LCMO/STO薄膜的初始磁化曲线，以及t=5，50nm的LCMO/LAO薄膜的小磁滞回线的测量，我们对薄膜中矫顽力机制作了验证，并且还讨论了钉扎和形核机制发生的非均匀区的尺寸。     

Influence of microstructures on exchange bias behaviors of La0.7Sr0.3MnO3/La0.33Ca0.67MnO3 bilayers

Ferromagnetic La_0.7Sr_0.3MnO₃ (LSMO) and antiferromagnetic La_0.33Ca_0.67MnO₃ (LCMO) layers were grown on SrTiO₃ (STO) substrates by the pulsed laser deposition technique. LSMO films had rougher surfaces and larger grain sizes than LCMO films. Fully strained bilayers, in which each layer was as thin as 10 nm, were prepared by changing their stacking sequences, i.e. LSMO/LCMO/STO and LCMO/LSMO/STO. The former had higher T_C (350 K) than the latter (300 K), and exchange bias effects were only observed in the former bilayers. This revealed that microstructures could play an important role in the transport and magnetic properties of manganese oxide thin films.     

La0.67Ca0.33MnO3单晶中Fe的掺杂提高本征磁电阻率和激活能的研究

La_0.67Ca_0.33MnO₃ and La_0.67Ca_0.33Mn_0.96Fe0.04O₃单晶的磁性和磁电阻特性。由于缺少晶粒间界，磁场对于自旋涨落的抑制作用更加明显，所以单晶中的磁电阻率比多晶的提高了两个数量级。通过Fe的掺杂，在40×10⁵A/m的磁场下，磁电阻率从3400%进一步提高到了17600%。通过对居里温度以上电阻率的小极化子模型拟和的结果，我们看到随着Fe的掺杂，激活能被提高。磁极化子激活能的增大可以更加局域电子，这可能是在Fe掺杂单晶中本征磁电阻率进一步提高的主要原因。     

Pico-second photoelectric characteristic in manganite oxide La0.67Ca0.33MnO3 films

Ultrafast photoelectric characteristic has been observed in La_0.67Ca_0.33MnO₃ films on tilted SrTiO₃ substrates. A pico-second (ps) open-circuit photovoltage of the perovskite manganese oxide films has been obtained when the films were irradiated by a 1.064μm laser pulse of 25 ps duration. The rise time and full width at half-maximum of the photovoltage pulse are ～300 ps and ～700 ps, respectively. The photovoltaic sensitivity was as large as ～500 mV/mJ.     

The unusual magnetotransport properties of La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 with Nb2O5 addition

Enhancements of the low-field (LFMR) and high-field magnetoresistance (HFMR) were observed in the manganite system prepared by doping Nb₂O₅ into La_0.67Sr_0.33MnO₃ powders. The maximum MR ratios at 77 K with H=1 T and 1 kOe are 30% and 20% for the 0.07 molar ratio doped sample, which are 1.7 times and 1.6 times as large as that for LSMO, respectively. An MR effect up to 6.5% was also found for the sample with x=0.03 at room temperature (RT). The spin-dependent tunneling and scattering at the interfaces of grain boundaries are responsible for the LFMR while the HFMR originates from a noncollinear spin structure in the surface layer. With increasing x, the Curie temperature (T_C) decreases monotonically from 364 to 154 K while the temperature T_P related to the peak resistivity decreases firstly to a minimum of 204 K (x=0.06) and then rises up to 240 K (x=0.1). There is a maximum resistivity ρ for the sample with x=0.06, which is higher than that for LSMO by five orders of magnitude. It is due to the enhancement of spin-dependent and independent scattering and tunneling effects on the interfaces of grain boundaries and inside the grains.     

Double-peak resistivity transport properties of La0.67Ca0.33MnO3 ceramics

Polycrystalline samples of La_0.67Ca_0.33MnO₃ were prepared by solid-state reactions by varying the pelletization force and the sintering temperature. Lowering the sintering temperature gave rise to smaller grains and increased the overall resistivity of the ceramic. Partial melting was observed in the ceramics sintered at higher temperatures (1400-1500 °C). Additionally, these ceramics showed two distinct resistivity peaks. The resistivity peak near the magnetic transition (T_C) was sharp, whereas the second peak was a broad one observed below T_C.     

Response of the capacitance of a planar La0.67Ca0.33MnO3/SrTiO3/La0.67Ca0.33MnO3 heterostructure to an electric field

Manganite film electrodes were integrated with a spacer layer of strontium titanate to produce an epitaxial La_0.67Ca_0.33MnO₃/(1000 nm)SrTiO₃/La_0.67Ca_0.33MnO₃ (LCMO/STO/LCMO) heterostructure by laser ablation. At T = 300 K, the mechanical stresses in the STO layer relaxed to a considerable extent, while the LCMO electrodes were found to be under biaxial lateral tensile strain, with the lattice unit cell of the top electrode distorted considerably stronger (a _∥/a _⊥ ≈ 1.026) than that of the bottom electrode (≈1.008) (a _∥ and a _⊥ are the unit cell parameters in the substrate plane and along the normal to its surface, respectively). The reciprocal of the capacitance C of the plane-parallel LCMO/STO/LCMO film capacitors thus formed increased almost linearly with increasing temperature T in the range 50–250 K. At T < 100 K, the capacitance C decreased by approximately 50% in an electric field E = 40 kV/cm. After the electric field E was varied as 0 → + 100 kV/cm → 0, the capacitance C decreased by approximately 3% and the maximum in the C(E, T > 200 K) dependence shifted by approximately 9 kV/cm with respect to the point E = 0.     

Enhancing low-field magnetoresistance of La0.67Ca0.33MnO3 films deposited on anodized aluminium-oxide membranes

In this paper we report a new method to fabricate nanostructured films, La0.67Ca0.33MnO3 （LCMO） nanostructured films have been fabricated by using pulsed electron beam deposition （PED） on anodized aluminium oxide （AAO） membranes, The magnetic and electronic transport properties are investigated by using the Quantum Design physics properties measurement system （PPMS） and magnetic properties measurement system （MPMS）. The resistance peak temperature （Tp） is about 85 K and the Curie temperature （To） is about 250 K for the LCMO film on an AAO membrane with a pore diameter of 20nm. Large magnetoresistance ratio （MR） is observed near Tp. The MR is as high as 85% under 1 T magnetic field. The great enhancement of MR at low magnetic fields could be attributed to the lattice distortion and the grain boundary that are induced by the nanopores on the AAO membrane.     

Magnetoresistance and transport properties of different impurity doped La0.67Ca0.33MnO3 composite

An enhanced magnetoresistance and a two-fold effect result from impurity dopant were observed in composites of La_0.67Ca_0.33MnO₃/YSZ and La_0.67Ca_0.33MnO₃/Fe₃O₄. Where YSZ represents yttria-stabilized zirconia and the doping level of both YSZ and Fe₃O₄ is 1 mol%. Different electrical and magnetic transport properties, in particular a lower field magnetization behavior, were observed between pure La_0.67Ca_0.33MnO₃ and the impurity doped La_0.67Ca_0.33MnO₃ composites. Compared with pure La_0.67Ca_0.33MnO₃, a possible interpretation is presented by considering the influences of YSZ and Fe₃O₄ on the structure of grain boundaries and/or surfaces of La_0.67Ca_0.33MnO₃grains.     

Surface roughening by anisotropic adatom kinetics in epitaxial growth of La0.67Ca0.33MnO3

The growth mechanisms and surface morphology of colossal magnetoresistance (CMR) La_0.67Ca_0.33MnO₃ films deposited by rf magnetron sputtering on SrTiO₃(0 0 1) substrates are investigated. The films are epitaxial, coherently strained and ferromagnetic. It is found that at early growth stages, in nanometric films, a layer-by-layer mechanism dominates, which results in step and terrace surface morphology. Upon further growth, the flat surface becomes unstable when large two-dimensional (2D) islands form. The Erlich-Schwoebel step-edge energy barrier induces an anisotropic adatom kinetics that favors 2D nucleation on top of the islands as it reduces downhill adatom current. As a result, there is an evolution with growth to mound-like structures of increasing height. Critical thickness for mound formation and average mound separation can be tuned by substrate miscut angle and growth temperature. These results provide a detailed understanding of the roughening process in manganites and are relevant for the controlled fabrication of CMR films, in particular for its use in epitaxial heterostructures.     

Preparation and study of silver added La0.67Ca0.33MnO3 film

La_0.67Ca_0.33MnO₃ (LCMO) and Ag admixed La_0.67Ca_0.33MnO₃ (Ag-LCMO) polycrystalline films have been prepared on SrTiO₃ single crystal (100) substrates by ultrasonic spray pyrolysis technique. These films are characterized using XRD, SEM, and temperature dependence of resistivity (ρ-T) and ac susceptibility (χ-T). The films are having cubic structure with lattice parameters as 3.890 and 3.885 Å for LCMO and Ag-LCMO films, respectively. The peek in ρ-T curve (T_p) and the ferromagnetic transition temperature (T_C) for the Ag-LCMO film is higher than that of LCMO film. The stability of both the films was tested by repeated measurements of its characteristics over a period of one week after several thermal cycling from room temperature to 77 K. In the LCMO film, the peak in the ρ-T curve (T_p) is found to shift towards lower value and conduction noise of the film increases in the subsequent measurements. In the case of Ag-LCMO the value of T_p, T_C and conduction noise of the film did not change even after several measurements. Silver segregating at the grain boundaries in Ag-LCMO polycrystalline film seems to be responsible for improving the characteristics of Ag-LCMO films.     

Direct measurement of the magnetocaloric effect in La0.67Ca0.33MnO3

Polycrystalline perovskite La_0.67Ca_0.33MnO₃ was synthesized by a sol–gel method. Its adiabatic temperature change ΔT_ad induced by a magnetic field change was measured directly. At 268 K, near its Curie temperature T_C, ΔT_ad of La_0.67Ca_0.33MnO₃ induced by a magnetic field change of 2.02 T reaches 2.4 K. The latent heat Q and magnetic entropy change −ΔS_M induced by a magnetic field change were calculated from the temperature dependence of ΔT_ad and zero-field heat capacity C_p. The maximum values of Q and −ΔS_M in La_0.67Ca_0.33MnO₃ induced by a magnetic field change of 2.02 T are 1.85 J g⁻¹ and 6.9 J kg⁻¹ K⁻¹, respectively. The former is larger than the phase transition latent heat of heating or cooling, which is about 1.70 J g⁻¹.     

Thickness dependence of electroresistance in La0.67Ca0.33MnO3 epitaxial films

The electroresistance (ER) of La_0.67Ca_0.33MnO₃ (LCMO) epitaxial thin films with different thicknesses was studied. For the 110 nm thick LCMO film, its ER shows a maximum at T_p, where the resistance shows a peak, and decreases to zero at lower temperatures. While for the 30 nm thick LCMO film, its ER is remarkable in a wide temperature range. Another interesting observation in this work is that the electric current can tune the magnetoresistance of the ultrathin LCMO thin film. The results were discussed by considering the coexistence of ferromagnetic metallic phase with the charge ordered phase, and the variation of the phase separation with film thickness and electric current. This work also demonstrates that electric current can tune the magnetoresistance of the manganites, which is helpful for their applications.     

Magnetocaloric effect in La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 manganite above room temperature

The La_0.67Sr_0.33MnO₃ composition prepared by sol-gel synthesis was studied by dc magnetization measurements. A large magnetocaloric effect was inferred over a wide range of temperature around the second-order paramagnetic-ferromagnetic transition. The change of magnetic entropy increases monotonically with increasing magnetic field and reaches the value of 5.15 J/kg K at 370 K for Δμ0H=5 T. The corresponding adiabatic temperature change is 3.3 K. The changes in magnetic entropy and the adiabatic temperature are also significant at moderate magnetic fields. The magnetic field induced change of the specific heat varies with temperature and has maximum variation near the paramagnetic-ferromagnetic transition. The obtained results show that La_0.67Sr_0.33MnO₃ could be considered as a potential candidate for magnetic refrigeration applications above room temperature.     

Nonlinear three-magnon scattering in low-damping La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 thin films

Three-magnon scattering, a nonlinear process in which a high-energy magnon splits into two low-energy magnons with energy and momentum conservation, has been widely studied in the magnonics community. Here, we report experimental observation of nonlinear three-magnon scattering in La_0.67Sr_0.33MnO₃ thin films with low magnetic damping(～ 10^-4) by all-electric and angle-resolved spin wave spectroscopy. The reflection spectra of the spin wave resonance wit...     

A位的Sm掺杂对La0.67Sr0.33MnO3体系磁电性质的影响

通过实验研究了La067-xSmxSr033MnO3(x=000，010，020，030)体系的M_T曲线、ESR曲线、红外光谱、拉曼光谱、ρ_T曲线和MR_T曲线. 实验结果表明：随着Sm掺杂的增加，体系从长程铁磁有序向自旋团簇玻璃态和反铁磁状态转变，Sm掺杂引起的磁结构变化和额外磁性耦合将导致CMR效应. 关键词： 磁结构 输运行为 庞磁电阻效应     

La0.67Ca0.33MnO3薄膜皮秒光电效应

在1064 nm波长脉冲激光（脉宽25 ps）的照射下，钙钛矿氧化物薄膜La0.67Ca0.33MnO3/SrTiO3具有超快光电效应，对激光脉冲显示ps量级的响应时间，上升沿响应时间300 ps，半高宽700 ps，同时，对激光能量的响应灵敏度为500 mV/mJ。     

Ti/Pr0.7Ca0.3MnO3/La0.67Sr0.33MnO3/Pt异质结电致电阻效应的改善

采用脉冲激光沉积技术制备了Ti/Pr_0.7Ca_0.3MnO₃/Pt和Ti/Pr_0.7Ca_0.3MnO₃/La_0.67Sr_0.33MnO₃/Pt异质结并研究了La_0.67Sr_0.33MnO₃功能插层对异质结电致电阻特性的影响. 实验结果表明La_0.67Sr_0.33MnO₃功能层的引入有效提高了器件的电阻转变特性,尤其是电阻转变率和疲劳性得到了极大的改善. 对La_0.67Sr_0.33MnO₃插层改善电致电阻转变特性的机理进行了定性的分析. 关键词： 电致电阻效应 电阻转变比率 疲劳特性     

Superparamagnetic behavior of La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 nanoparticles prepared via sol-gel method

Magnetic nanoparticles of La_0.67Sr_0.33MnO₃ (LSMO) manganite were prepared by sol-gel method. Phase formation and crystal structure of the synthesized powder were examined by the X-ray diffraction (XRD) using the Rietveld analysis. The mean particle size was determined by the transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Infrared transmission spectroscopy revealed that stretching and bending modes are influenced by calcinations temperature. The temperature dependence of the ac magnetic susceptibility was measured at different frequencies and ac magnetic fields in the selected ranges of 40-1000 Hz and 80-800 A/m, respectively. The temperature dependence of ac susceptibility shows a characteristic maxima corresponding to the blocking temperature near room temperature. The frequency dependence of the blocking temperature is well described by the Vogel-Fulcher law. By fitting the experimental data with this law, the relaxation time τ₀=1.7×10⁻¹² s, characteristic temperature T₀=262±3 K, anisotropy energy E_a/k=684±15 K and effective magnetic anisotropy constant k_eff=2.25×10⁴ erg/cm³ have been obtained. dc Magnetization measurement versus magnetic field shows that some of LSMO nanoparticles are blocked at 293 K. The role of magnetic interparticle interactions on the magnetic behavior is also investigated.