Temperature dependence of magnetoresistance and nonlinear conductance of the bicrystal grain boundary in epitaxial La0.67Ba0.33MnO3 thin films

Khare, Neeraj and Moharil, UP and Gupta, AK and Raychaudhuri, AK and Pai, SP and Pinto, R (2002) Temperature dependence of magnetoresistance and nonlinear conductance of the bicrystal grain boundary in epitaxial La0.67Ba0.33MnO3 thin films. In: Applied Physics Letters, 81 (2). pp. 325-327.

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Abstract

We investigated conduction through an artificial grain-boundary junction made in La0.67Ba0.33MnO3 thin films, deposited on a 36.7° SrTiO3 bicrystal substrate using a laser ablation technique. The grain boundary exhibits substantial magnetoresistance at low temperatures and also shows nonlinear I–V characteristics. Analysis of temperature dependence of the dynamic conductance allows us to identify three carrier transport mechanisms across the grain boundary. These mechanisms exist in parallel, and at a given temperature one mechanism may dominate. Particularly, at higher temperatures (T>175 K) the transport across the grain boundary involves spin–flip scattering, which we establish leads to decrease of the bicrystal grain-boundary contribution in magnetoresistance. At lower temperature (4.2–45 K), tunneling through a disordered oxide at the grain boundary dominates, whereas in the temperature range from 100 to 175 K, carrier transport is dominated by inelastic tunneling via pairs of manganese atoms.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Applied Physics Letters
Publisher:	American Institute of Physics
Additional Information:	Copyright for this article belongs to American Institute of Physics (AIP).
Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics
Date Deposited:	27 Oct 2004
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:16
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/2036

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