Abstract
In colossal magnetoresistive (CMR) materials, large changes in physical properties stem from the interplay between charge ordering (CO) coupled with orbital and magnetic orderings. Thus detailed microstructural studies are important in understanding these changes in physical properties. In-situTEM observation is a very useful approach to study CO transitions in these CMR compounds. We have recently studied the CO behavior of the three-dimensional perovskite Nd1/2Sr1+2xMnO3. in this work, we report the CO of two-dimensional naturally layered compounds La2-2xSr1+2xMn2O7 (327 phase), where x is the hole doping level and varies from 0.5 to 0.6 in this work.Thin foil TEM specimens were prepared from polycrystalline bulk samples by conventional thinning and ion milling method at liquid N2 temperature. The in-situ TEM work was carried out in the Electron Microscopy Center at Argonne National Laboratory using a Philips CM30 with a liquid N2 cold stage, and a Hitachi H-9000 with liquid He cold stage.
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