Abstract

La0.6Ca0.3Ag0.1MnO3 system has been synthesized using the cheap solid–solid process. Structural analysis indicates that the sample exhibits a single phase of intragranular. Electrical and dielectric data, over a wide temperature range and frequencies have been recorded with impedance spectroscopy. We visualize the conductivity, whose activation energy is low, as a successive hopping of electrons as polaron does. Further, the conductivity is governed by the small polaron hopping model at higher temperature region while it fits well with the variable range hopping model at a lower temperature range. Dielectric data has been represented in different alternative complex formalisms, from which complementary information has been extracted. The complex impedance diagram suggests the contribution of only two active microstructures, ruling out the electrode polarization effect. We adopt the spectrum of the imaginary component of the electric modulus M″ to distinguish long range hopping from short range hopping. The relative permittivity spectrum permits to identify the possibility of the existence of electric polarizations. Further, it reveals colossal static dielectric constant, which makes it suitable for multitude potential applications in electronic industrial fields.

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