Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2006-05-24
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
RevTeX, 9 pages, 7 figures, to be published in Physical Review B
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.73.214440
We report on the magnetic, resistive, and structural studies of perovskite La$_{1/3}$Sr$_{2/3}$CoO$_{3-\delta}$. By using the relation of synthesis temperature and oxygen partial pressure to oxygen stoichiometry obtained from thermogravimetric analysis, we have synthesized a series of samples with precisely controlled $\delta=0.00-0.49$. These samples show three structural phases at $\delta=0.00-0.15$, $\approx0.25$, $\approx0.5$, and two-phase behavior for other oxygen contents. The stoichiometric material with $\delta=0.00$ is a cubic ferromagnetic metal with the Curie temperature $T_{\rm C}=274$ K. The increase of $\delta$ to 0.15 is followed by a linear decrease of $T_{\rm C}$ to $\approx$ 160 K and a metal-insulator transition near the boundary of the cubic structure range. Further increase of $\delta$ results in formation of a tetragonal $2a_p\times 2a_p \times 4a_p$ phase for $\delta\approx 0.25$ and a brownmillerite phase for $\delta\approx0.5$. At low temperatures, these are weak ferromagnetic insulators (canted antiferromagnets) with magnetic transitions at $T_{\rm m}\approx230$ and 120 K, respectively. At higher temperatures, the $2a_p\times 2a_p \times 4a_p$ phase is $G$-type antiferromagnetic between 230 K and $\approx$360 K. Low temperature magnetic properties of this system for $\delta<1/3$ can be described in terms of a mixture of Co$^{3+}$ ions in the low-spin state and Co$^{4+}$ ions in the intermediate-spin state and a possible spin transition of Co$^{3+}$ to the intermediate-spin state above $T_{\rm C}$. For $\delta>1/3$, there appears to be a combination of Co$^{2+}$ and Co$^{3+}$ ions, both in the high-spin state with dominating antiferromagnetic interactions.
Baszczuk A.
Chmaissem Omar
Dabrowski Bogdan
Jorgensen J. D.
Kolesnik S.
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