Improvement on Electrical Properties and Magnetoresistance Induced by Pd or Ag Addition in Lao.67（Ca0.65Ba0.35）0.33MnO3 Manganites

Electrical properties and magnetoresistance have been studied in two series of xAg-La0.67（Ca0.65Ba0.35）0.33MnO3 and xPd-La0.67（Ca0.65Ba0.35）0.33MnO3 （abbreviated by xAg-LCBMO and xPd-LCBMO） composites. Both Pd and Ag addition induce a decrease in resistivity and an increase in temperature at which the resistivity reaches its maximum. This is mainly due to the improvement of grain boundaries caused by the segregation of good conductive metal grains on the grain boundaries/surfaces. In addition, both Pd and Ag addition induce a large enhancement of room temperature magnetoresistance （RTMR）. Note that 27% molar ratio of Ag addition induces a large RTMR of about 70%, about ten times larger than pure LCBMO, whereas 27% molar ratio Pd addition brings a much larger RTMR of about 170%. The large enhancements of MR can be attributed to the decrease in resistivity of the samples caused by the good conductive metal. On the other hand, the polarization of Pd atoms near the Mn ions on the grain surfaces/boundaries plays a very im-portant role in the increase in MR, which induces a large number of spin clusters in Pd-added samples.

La_(0.67)Sr_(0.33)MnO_3中Ag-Ti的掺杂效应

将La0.67Sr0.33MnO3(LSMO)、Ag2O及TiO2粉混合经高温烧结后制备了钙钛矿相/xAg两相复合体系(x是Ag与钙钛矿材料的物质的量比),系统地研究了Ag-Ti的共掺杂对LSMO电性和磁电阻效应的影响。0.07摩尔比Ti4+离子的B位掺杂使LSMO的居里温度降至室温。Ag的掺入对TC影响不大,TP逐渐升高。由于钙钛矿颗粒属性的改善和金属导电通道的出现,材料的电阻率明显下降。Ag掺杂使室温磁电阻得到显著增强,室温下从x=0.30样品中得到最大的磁电阻,约为32%,是La0.67Sr0.33MnO3样品的8倍,La0.67Sr0.33Mn0.93Ti0.07O3样品的1.6倍。