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Evolution of structural phase coexistence in a half doped manganite Pr0.5Sr0.5MnO3: An evidence for magneto-structural coupling

Pramanik, AK and Ranjan, Rajeev and Banerjee, A (2012) Evolution of structural phase coexistence in a half doped manganite Pr0.5Sr0.5MnO3: An evidence for magneto-structural coupling. In: JOURNAL OF MAGNETISM AND MAGNETIC MATERIALS, 325 . pp. 29-35.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2012.08.006

Abstract

Temperature dependent x-ray diffraction measurements have been performed to understand the implications of magnetic phase coexistence on crystallographic structure in a half-doped manganite Pr0.5Sr0.5MnO3. The compound shows a structural phase transition from high-temperature tetragonal-I4/mcm to low-temperature orthorhombic-Fmmm symmetry around the ferromagnetic to antiferro-magnetic transition. Rietveld analysis shows the coexistence of these two structures emerges at high temperature within the ferromagnetic state, and persists down to lowest temperature. Below around 40 K, however, this structural evolution stops, and a significant fraction (similar to 22%) of untransformed high-temperature phase remains. This agrees with earlier magnetization study, thus establishing its magneto-structural coupling. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Item Type: Journal Article
Publication: JOURNAL OF MAGNETISM AND MAGNETIC MATERIALS
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Additional Information: Copyright for this article belongs to ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, NETHERLANDS
Department/Centre: Division of Mechanical Sciences > Materials Engineering (formerly Metallurgy)
Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics
Date Deposited: 28 Dec 2012 09:31
Last Modified: 28 Dec 2012 09:31
URI: http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/45451

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