Effects of silver doping upon the physical properties of La 0.7Sr 0.3-xAg xMnO 3 manganese oxide
Abstract
We present the effect of Ag doping upon structural and magnetic properties in La 0.7Sr 0.3-xAg xMnO 3 for x=0, 0.05, 0.1, 0.15 and 0.2. Our samples have been elaborated using the solid-state reaction at high temperature. X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns show that our powder samples are single phase and crystallize in the rhombohedral distorted structure with R3̄ c space group. The unit cell volume increases with increasing Ag content from 348.4 Å 3 for x=0 to 354.4 Å 3 for x=0.2. Magnetization measurements vs. temperature show that all our samples exhibit a paramagnetic-ferromagnetic transition with decreasing temperature. The Curie temperature TC decreases from 365 K for x=0 to 286 K for x=0.2.
- Publication:
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Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
- Pub Date:
- September 2007
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.jmmm.2007.03.077
- Bibcode:
- 2007JMMM..316E.648C