Katari, V.; Achary, S. N.; Deshpande, S. K.; Babu, P. D.; Sinha, A. K.; Salunke, H. G.; Gupta, N.; Tyagi, A. K. (ChD;TPD)
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Journal of Physical Chemistry-C, 2014. Vol. 118 (31): pp. 17900-17913
ABSTRACT
We report the effect of annealing atmosphere on structure and magnetic and dielectric properties of double perovskite-type EuCo0.5Mn0.5O3
(ECMO). Polycrystalline samples prepared by high-temperature reaction
were subjected to annealing in different oxygen partial pressures and
investigated by powder X-ray diffraction, magnetometry, and ac impedance
spectroscopy. While the samples annealed in air or oxygen environment
were found to have cation-disordered orthorhombic structure (Pnma), the samples annealed in inert atmosphere have Eu3+
deficient perovskite-type structure. The temperature- and
field-dependent magnetizations indicate the ferromagnetic transition
around 130 K. The differences in field-cooled and zero-fieldcooled
magnetization and significant effect of magnetic field on magnetic
properties suggest metamagnetic behavior in ECMO. Randomly distributed
clusters of ferromagnetically (FM) and antiferromagnetically (AFM)
paired magnetic ions and their relative proportions are reflected in
their magnetic properties. The weak nature of the antiferromagnetic
interactions is reflected in the switching of AFM to FM state at
appreciably lower field strength ( ~ 300 Oe). Dielectric measurements
indicate that the samples annealed in air or oxygen show large
dielectric permittivity (≥2000) compared to that in inert atmosphere ( ~
400). The analyses of temperature- and frequency-dependent loss tangent
and modulus data revealed two different types of relaxations which
possibly originate from two polaronic conduction processes.