Grain boundary effects on the electrical and magnetic properties of Pr2/3Ba1/3MnO3 and La2/3Ca1/3MnO3 manganites

Materials Letters

Volumn 61, Issue 27, 2007, Pages 4879-4883

  Panwar, Neeraj ^a,b   Sen, Vikram ^a   Pandya, D K ^b   Agarwal, S K ^a  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Electron magnon scattering; Grain boundary effects; Low field magnetoresistivity (LFMR); Manganites; Variable range hopping (VRH)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETORESISTANCE; PRASEODYMIUM COMPOUNDS; SCATTERING;

ELECTRON-MAGNON SCATTERING; GRAIN BOUNDARY EFFECTS; LOW FIELD MAGNETORESISTIVITY (LFMR); VARIABLE RANGE HOPPING (VRH);

MANGANITES;

EID: 34548709715     PISSN: 0167577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matlet.2007.03.062     Document Type: Article

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