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AM: Magnetismus

AM 10: Postersitzung

AM 10.8: Poster

Tuesday, March 23, 1999, 16:15–20:00, F\"urstenberghaus

Effective conductivity and magnetic order in (Ho,Ca)MnO3 and (Y,Ca)MnO3 — •K. Knorr, W. Prandl, and H. Schmid — Institut f"ur Kristallographie Universit"at T"ubingen, Charlottenstra"se 33, 72070 T"ubingen

(HoxCa1−x)MnO3 belongs to the family of compounds with high conductivity, ferromagnetic behaviour and potentially high magnetoresistance. We observe a gradual transition of metallic behaviour at low Ho concentrations (with an optimum around x = 0.1) to pure semiconductivity at higher concentrations. The observed resistivities extend over more than seven decades, from 2· 10−3 Ohm·cm to 5· 104 Ohm·cm. The metallic phases are canted antiferromagnets with the ferromagnetic component increasing for concentrations 0 ≤ x ≤ 0.12. Beyond x = 0.15 the spin-canting breaks down, and pure antiferromagnetism occurs. We correlate this phenomenon with a transition from orthorhombic (Pnma) to monoclinic (P21/m) crystal structures in which the eg electrons carrying the current are evidently progressively (with increasing x) immobilized. The system (Y,Ca)MnO3 is very similar to (Ho,Ca)MnO3: this excludes any influence due to the paramagnetism of Ho on the observed phenomena and points out the importance of ionic radii and cell volume effects in this series of compounds.
We acknowledge the support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Proj. PR44/8-1).

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