Abstract
We present a study of the structural and electrical behavior of nano-polycrystalline mixed barium and alkali substituted lanthanum-based manganite, (La 1− y K y ) 0.7Ba 0.3MnO 3 with y=0.0–0.3. The samples were synthesized by the polymerization complex sol–gel method. The powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) data of the samples show a single-phase character with R 3 ¯ c space group. The magnetic and electrical transport properties of the nano-polycrystalline samples have been investigated in the temperature range 50–300 K and a magnetic field up to 10 kOe. The metal–insulator transition temperature T p of all the samples decreased with potassium doping, and also, it increased slightly with the application of magnetic field. The low field magnetoresistance, which is absent in the single-crystalline perovskite, was observed and increased with decreasing temperature. Comparing the experimental resistivity data with the theoretical models shows that the high temperature electrical behavior of these samples is in accordance with the adiabatic small polaron-hopping model. In the metal-ferromagnetic region the resistivity is found to be quite well described by ρ = ρ 0 + ρ 2 T 2 + ρ 4.5 T 4.5 .
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