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VOLUME 93 (2011) | ISSUE 3 |
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The low-temperature macroscopic phase separation in La0.5Ba0.5CoO3-δ cobaltite
I. O. Troyanchuk, D. V. Karpinsky, M. V. Bushinsky, V. Sikolenko, V. Efimov, A. Cervellino∇
SSPA "Scientific-Practical Materials Research Centre of NAS of Belarus", 220072 Minsk, Belarus !°Laboratory for Neutron Scattering, ETH Zurich and Paul Sherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, RU-141980 Russia ∇Swiss Light Source, Paul Sherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
Abstract
La0.5Ba0.5CoO2.87 has been characterized with neutron and
synchrotron powder diffraction and magnetization measurements. This compound
was shown to have a cubic crystal structure at temperatures above 200 K
whereas slightly above the Curie point K the structural separation
into two different pseudocubic phases gradually develops upon cooling. The
structural transformation is reversible. At 2 K the sample consists of G-type
antiferromagnetic oxygen-poor and ferromagnetic oxygen-rich phases
(approximately 33% and 66% respectively).
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