Structural phase transition at the percolation threshold in epitaxial (La0.7Ca0.3MnO3)1-x: (MgO)x nanocomposite films

Nature Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 247-252

  Moshnyaga, V ^a   Damaschke, B ^a   Shapoval, O ^b   Belenchuk, A ^b   Faupel, J ^a   Lebedev, O I ^c   Verbeeck, J ^c   Van Tendeloo, G ^c   Mucksch M ^d   Tsurkan, V ^d   Tidecks, R ^d   Samwer, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Moldova)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOSSAL MAGNETORESISTANCE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS; MAGNESIA; PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE); PHASE SEPARATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

LANTHANUM CALCIUM MANGANATE; NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; PERCOLATION THRESHOLD; PEROVSKITE MANGANITES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

CALCIUM DERIVATIVE; FERRIC ION; FERRITE; MAGNESIUM OXIDE; OXIDE; PEROVSKITE; TITANIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE;

CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; MAGNESIUM OXIDE; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; OXIDES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; TITANIUM;

EID: 0038545283     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat859     Document Type: Article

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