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Thickness-dependent magnetic and transport properties of La0.5Sr0.5MnO3 thin films deposited by DC magnetron sputtering on the LaAlO3 substrate

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Title Thickness-dependent magnetic and transport properties of La0.5Sr0.5MnO3 thin films deposited by DC magnetron sputtering on the LaAlO3 substrate
 
Creator Yadav, K.
Singh, H. K.
Maurya, K. K.
Varma, G. D.
 
Subject Materials Science
Applied Physics/Condensed Matter
 
Description Thickness-dependent structural, magnetic and transport properties of La0.5Sr0.5MnO3(LSMO) thin films have been studied. A series of the LSMO films with thickness 30, 60, 125 and 300 nm have been deposited on the LaAlO3 substrate using DC magnetron sputtering. The paramagnetic to ferromagnetic transition at T-c is followed by antiferromagnetic ordering at T-N in all films. It is also found that all LSMO films have T-c lower than that of bulk LSMO. A small variation of T-c is observed on increasing the film thickness. However, T-N is found to rise with increase in the film thickness. The 60 nm-thick film shows a wide insulator to metal transition. The resistivity above 240 K of the films with various thicknesses is consistent with a small polaronic hopping conductivity. The polaronic formation energy E-A rises with the increase of the film thickness except for 60 nm thin film, where a small decline in E-A is observed. The correlation between observed structural, magnetic and electrical properties with the thickness of the films has been discussed in this paper.
 
Publisher Springer Verlag
 
Date 2018-01
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://npl.csircentral.net/3730/1/Thickness-dependent%20magnetic.pdf
Yadav, K. and Singh, H. K. and Maurya, K. K. and Varma, G. D. (2018) Thickness-dependent magnetic and transport properties of La0.5Sr0.5MnO3 thin films deposited by DC magnetron sputtering on the LaAlO3 substrate. Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing , 124 (1). pp. 66-72. ISSN 0947-8396
 
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