Role of grain boundaries in double exchange manganite oxides La1-xAxMnO3 (A = Ba, Ca)

Solid State Communications

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 463-466

  Ju, H L ^a,b   Sohn, Hyunchul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

A. Magnetically ordered materials; C. Grain boundary; D. Electronic transport

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETORESISTANCE; OXIDES; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

GIANT MAGNETORESISTANCE; MAGNETOTRANSPORT; MANGANITE OXIDES;

MANGANESE COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0031144916     PISSN: 00381098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0038-1098(97)00031-8     Document Type: Article

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