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EnglishLanthanum manganites with a massive concentration of La defects can be stabilized in the form of thin films, by exploiting the structural stress produced by a substrate such as SrTiO3. They undergo an insulator-to-metal transition (IMT) like those doped by divalent ions, which is here studied by measuring the optical conductivity of LaxMnO$_{3-delta }$ films with x = 0.66, 0.88, 0.98 and 1.10, and with $delta simeq 0$, from the far infrared to the near ultraviolet, and between 20 and 300 K. The IMT is here a slow process which continues down to 100 K at least, more than 250 K below its onset at the Curie temperature Tc and at the TIMT measured from the dc resistivity. The metallization is here monitored through the increase of the Drude term and a transfer of spectral weight from a 'hard' midinfrared band MIR-2 peaked between 3000 and 5000 cm−1 at room temperature, to a 'soft' midinfrared band MIR-1 at ~ 1000 cm−1 and to the Drude term. This evidence is in good agreement with a model of phase separation below Tc, where insulating and paramagnetic regions of small polarons coexist with conducting and ferromagnetic regions populated by large polarons and free carriers.
| Titolo: | Optical study of the insulator-to-metal transition in LaxMnO3thin films |
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| Data di pubblicazione: | 2014 |
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| Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11386/4479858 |
| Appare nelle tipologie: | 1.1 Articoli su Rivista |
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