Transmission electron microscopy investigation of domains and boundaries in bulk La2/3Ca1/3MnO3 |
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Authors: | D. D. Liang C. H. Lei Q. Y. Xu Y. Ding |
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Affiliation: | Beijing Laboratory of Electron Microscopy Institute of Physics and Center for Condensed Matter Physics , Chinese Academy of Sciences , PO Box 603, Beijing, 10080, PR China |
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Abstract: | The microstructure of domains and boundaries in a bulk orthorhombic La2/3Ca1/3MnO3 material is analysed by applying symmetry group theory. Group theory predicts that the 120° and 90° orientation domains occur in bulk La1? x Ca x MnO3 (LCMO) when the cubic LCMO transforms into the orthorhombic LCMO by means of a structural phase transition. The orientation domains are observed and characterized by means of electron diffraction and high-resolution electron microscopy. Antiphase boundaries due to the loss of translation operations have displacement vectors of 1/2[010]o, 1/2[101]o and 1/2[111]0, according to the group theory. Diffraction contrast technique reveals that the displacive vector of most antiphase boundaries is 1/2[111]o, which is also confirmed by means of high-resolution electron microscopy. |
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