Effect on electric transport properties in LaMnO3 with doping at anion
site (oxygen-site)
Name : Kanika Garg
Roll no. :211315
End Semester Presentation
PHY 563A/565A M.Sc. Project
Supervisor : Prof. Zakir Hossain
Introduction
Structural Properties of our
parent compound LaMnO₃ Crystal Structure Magnetic Ordering
perovskite (ABO3 type )
manganite material
Fig 1. Cubic crystal structure of LaMnO₃ Fig 2. A type antiferromagnetic ordering
Colossal Magneto-resistive
Oxides Image source : Revista Mexicana de F Image source : Wu Hai-Ping
´ısica 61 (2015) 166–169 Chinese Physics B. Vol 18 No 11(2009)
Physical Properties LaMnO₃
Mott Insulator
• Magnetic and Structural Transition by
doping
• DRAMATIC CHANGES OF ELECTRICAL
100 200 300
COUNDUCTIVITY T(K)
• NEGETIVE MAGNETORESISTANCE FIG. 3. Temperature variation of resistivity of
polycrystalline pellets of La1-xCaxMnO3 at H = 0 and 6 T.
• FERROMAGNETIC TRANSITION
Image source : R. Mahendiran et. al.
PhysRevB.53.3348
Experimental Techniques
Sample Preparation
Polycrystalline Nitrogen
doped LaMnO3 (LaMnO3-xNx)
Solid State Reaction Method
Precursors
La2O3 (1.906g)
Mn(NO3)2 (1.363ml)
Intermediate grinding using Motar-Pestle.
Annealed in steps in furnace for 6 Hrs.
400°C
600°C
800°C
900°C
1000°C respectively
Sample Characterisation
Powder X- Ray Diffraction
Pattern ( Cu-Kα radiation)
To determine the crystal structure and
atomic arrangement etc.
It is clearly visible from XRD pattern that
peaks of LMO (LaMnO₃) does not coincide
with the peak of LMNO (LaMnO3-XNX).
This indicates the presence of secondary
phase in our sample.
Fig 4. Powder XRD pattern for LaMnO₃₋XNXat
different annealing temperature
Energy dispersive x-ray
spectroscopy (EDS) measurement
To determine the stoichiometry , elemental composition
001
1.4 Atom %
Element area 1 area 2 area 3 area 4
1.2 O
La
N 2.79 2.73 2.39 2.41
1.0
O 61.64 64.68 60.91 64.13
Co u n ts [x1 .E +3 ]
0.8 Mn 12.23 11.04 12.65 11.62
La
Mn
0.6
La La La 23.83 21.55 24.05 21.84
Mn
Mn
0.4 La
La Mn
N
0.2
Table shows data at different area of our sample.
0.0
0.00 2.00 4.00 6.00 8.00 10.00 12.00 14.00
ke V This is evidence of inhomogeneity in our sample
Sol gel Method
Precursors
La(NO3)3 .6H2O (6.5g)
Mn (NO3)3.H2O (1.91ml)
Urea (0.901g)
Mixed in 50ml distilled water
Citric acid as gelling agent (4g)
Magnetic stirring using magnetic stirrer keeping
at 65°C temperature (30 min).
Heat until gel was formed
Dry in oven at 200°C to get powder from gel.
Annealed in steps in furnace for 6 Hrs. Fig : Magnetic stirrer
400°C
600°C
800°C
900°C respectively
Powder X- Ray Diffraction Energy dispersive x-ray
Pattern ( Cu-Kα radiation) spectroscopy (EDS) measurement
Atom %
Element area 1 area 2 area 3
N 1.75 1.32 1.92
O 70.23 69.01 68.77
Mn 9.84 10.05 9.75
La 18.18 19.62 19.55
Fig 6. Rietveld refinement of XRD pattern of LMON
sample sintered at 900°C prepared by sol gel route.
Electrical Measurement
Resistance vs Temp. using four probe method.
Contacts were made using copper wire sticking
them with silver paste.
The measurement shows insulating behaviour
which is due to secondary phase in our sample.
Summary and Future plan
We prepared sample by two method.
We used XRD and EDS for sample characterization.
We can think of some new ideas to improve the purity of the sample
which will be our work for the upcoming semester.
We will do more electrical and magnetic measurement on our sample in
next semester.
Thank You
