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A Surface Insulator-to-Conductor Phase Transition in Colossal Magnetoresistive Manganese Perovskites Thin Films

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2011

C.N. Borca ,
Bo Xu ,
Takashi Komesu ,
Hae-Kyung Jeong ,
S.-H. Liou  and
P.A. Dowben
C.N. Borca
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Center for Material Research and Analysis, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588-0111, U.S.A.
Bo Xu
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Center for Material Research and Analysis, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588-0111, U.S.A.
Takashi Komesu
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Center for Material Research and Analysis, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588-0111, U.S.A.
Hae-Kyung Jeong
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Center for Material Research and Analysis, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588-0111, U.S.A.
S.-H. Liou
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Center for Material Research and Analysis, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588-0111, U.S.A.
P.A. Dowben
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Center for Material Research and Analysis, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588-0111, U.S.A.
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Abstract

We have observed a distinct surface phase transition for an important class of colossal magnetoresistive materials, La0.65D0.35MnO3 (with D = Sr, Pb) occurring in a surface layer compositionally different from the bulk. The surface phase transition occurs around 240 K compared to350 K for the bulk and is fundamentally different. In the bulk, a ferromagnetic metal to paramagnetic ‘bad metal’ occurs, while the lower-temperature surface transition is from an n-type (in case of La0.65D0.35MnO3) or a p-type (in case of La0.65D0.35MnO3) semiconductor to a semimetal with increasing temperature.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 672: Symposium O – Mechanisms of Surface and Microstructure Evolution in Deposited Films and Film Structures , 2001 , O9.8
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2001

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