The structural, magnetic and electrical transport properties of perovskite La0.67Sr0.33Mn1−x(VMn)xO3: The B-sites vacancies as a rapier

Abstract

The polycrystalline samples of manganites perovskite [Formula: see text] with B-sites vacancies were synthesized using the conventional solid-state reaction method. The results based on the X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) and Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) analyses show that the samples with [Formula: see text] have a secondary phase of lanthanum oxides. It indicates there is a maximum vacancy content at the B-sites with [Formula: see text]. By X-ray Photoelectron Spectra (XPS), the ionicities of oxygen were determined to be 0.762, 0.842, and 0.886, corresponding to [Formula: see text], 0.03, and 0.05, respectively. The B-sites vacancy plays an important role in magnetic performances: (i) B-sites vacancy changes the contents and the average cant angle of Mn cations, and makes the specific saturation magnetization at 100 K and 300 K increase, and then decrease rapidly. (ii) The Curie temperature changes in a small range from 363.93 K to 366.00 K, resulting from both the double exchange interaction increasing and the double exchange path destroyed by the vacancies. (iii) The magnetoresistance (MR) at room temperature achieves 6.97% in the [Formula: see text] sample, whose value is larger than that of [Formula: see text] sample.