期刊
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
卷 79, 期 22, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.79.224421
关键词
Brillouin zones; crystal symmetry; ferromagnetic-paramagnetic transitions; lanthanum compounds; lattice constants; long-range order; magnetic epitaxial layers; magnetisation; nickel compounds; Raman spectra; solid-state phase transformations; X-ray diffraction
资金
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
- Canada Foundation for Innovation
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Fonds Quebecois pour la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies (Quebec)
- Universite de Sherbrooke
We report and compare the structural, the magnetic, and the optical properties of ordered La2NiMnO6 thin films and its disordered LaNi0.5Mn0.5O3 counterpart. An x-ray diffraction (XRD) study reveals that the B-site Ni/Mn ordering induces additional XRD reflections as the crystal symmetry is transformed from a pseudocubic perovskite unit cell in the disordered phase to a monoclinic form with larger lattice parameters for the ordered phase. Polarized Raman-spectroscopy studies reveal that the ordered samples are characterized by additional phonon excitations that are absent in the disordered phase. The appearance of these additional phonon excitations is interpreted as the clearest signature of Brillouin-zone folding as a result of the long-range Ni/Mn ordering in La2NiMnO6. Both ordered and disordered materials display a single ferromagnetic-to-paramagnetic transition. The ordered films display also a saturation magnetization close to 4.8 mu(B)/f.u. and a transition temperature (FM-T-c) around 270 K while the disordered ones have only a 3.7 mu(B)/f.u. saturation magnetization and a FM-T-c around 138 K. The differences in their magnetic behaviors are understood based on the distinct local electronic configurations of their Ni/Mn cations.
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