Study on structural, magnetic and electrical properties of perovskite lanthanum strontium manganite nanoparticles
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Study on structural, magnetic and electrical properties of perovskite lanthanum strontium manganite nanoparticles G. Jayakumar1,* P. Akshadha1 1
, D. S. Poomagal1, A. Albert Irudayaraj1, A. Dhayal Raj1, S. Kethrin Thresa1, and
PG and Research Department of Physics, Sacred Heart College, Tirupathur, Tamil Nadu 635601, India
Received: 29 July 2020
ABSTRACT
Accepted: 4 October 2020
Lanthanum Strontium Manganite (La1-xSrxMnO3) perovskite nanoparticles are prepared by ultrasonication assisted hydrothermal method with different Sr concentration (x = 0.1, 0.3, 0.5). The structural, magnetic and electrical properties of the prepared samples are studied by powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), high resolution scanning electron microscopy (HRSEM), high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM), vibrating sample magnetometry (VSM) and impedance spectroscopy. The Powder XRD and EDX studies confirmed the formation of LaSrMnO3. The powder XRD patterns show that the crystallite size decreases from 27.2 to 19.7 nm as the Sr concentration increases from x = 0.1 to x = 0.5. A shift in peak position towards higher angle indicates the replacement of La ions by Sr ions in the LaMnO3 lattice. Electron microscopic images show that the La1-xSrxMnO3 samples having both spherical and polygon morphology with decreasing particle size as the Sr concentration increases. The selected area electron diffraction (SAED) pattern confirms the polycrystalline nature of the La1-xSrxMnO3(x = 0.5) nanoparticles. The magnetic study indicates that the La1-xSrxMnO3 samples exhibits ferromagnetism at room temperature, which increases with increasing of Sr concentration. Dielectric analysis shows the dielectric constant decreases with the function of frequency and increases with Sr content. With increase in frequency and Sr ions dopant concentration, the AC conductivity of the prepared samples is increased. The Cole–Cole plot shows the different radii of the semicircles exhibit the resistances of La1-xSrxMnO3 samples are highly dependent on the Sr concentration.
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-020-04608-9
J Mater Sci: Mater Electron
1 Introduction Natural and artificial perovskite materials are important for the technological applications due to the unique electrical and magnetic properties. In recent time, the perovskite type oxide solar cell electrodes attracts due to colossal magneto resistance with good chemical, electrical, thermal, optical, magnetic, mechanical and high catalytic activity [1–3]. The perovskite oxide materials generally have the ABO3 chemical formula, it focused greatly due to its catalytic activity and environmental friendliness [4]. In the perovskite family, La-based perovskite oxides and their partial substitution perovskite materials are used as heterogeneous catalysis, solar cell electrode, etc. [5–7]. Due to the distortion in the MnO6 octahedral, the ideal cubic structure changes to either or
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