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Cation Size and Disorder Effects in Conducting Perovskite Oxides

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2011

J. Paul Attifield ,
Andrei L. Kharlanov ,
Judith A. McAllister  and
Lide M. Rodriguez-Martinez
J. Paul Attifield
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW and Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Superconductivity, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK, jpal4@cam.ac.uk
Andrei L. Kharlanov
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW and Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Superconductivity, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK, jpal4@cam.ac.uk
Judith A. McAllister
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW and Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Superconductivity, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK, jpal4@cam.ac.uk
Lide M. Rodriguez-Martinez
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW and Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Superconductivity, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK, jpal4@cam.ac.uk
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Abstract

The electronic and magnetic properties of ATO3 and related perovskites (A is a mixture of lanthanide Ln3+ and alkaline earth M2+ cations; T is a transition metal) are very sensitive to the A site composition. The importance of doping effects controlled by the Ln3+/M2+ ratio is well-known, but the other lattice effects controlled by the sizes of these cations are less well understood. A simple approach making use of the mean (first moment) and the variance (second moment) in the A cation distribution has been applied to the metal-insulator transition temperature in colossal magnetoresistance AMnO3 perovskites and to the critical temperature in A2CuO4 and LnBa2Cu3O7-δ superconductors. Series of compositions prepared with a constant doping level and mean A cation radius show a linear decrease of the transition temperature Tt with the A cation size variance σ2. The rate of decrease -dTt/dσ2 is found to lie in the range 1,000-30,000 KÅ-2. The orthorhombic-tetra onal structural transition in the A2CuO4 materials is found to show a linear increase with σ2. A pair of quadratic relationships for the mean size and size variance effects are proposed to be the result of changing strain energies that give rise to these effects.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 547: Symposium DD – Solid-State Chemistry of Inorganic Materials II , 1998 , 15
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1999

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