Structural properties and charge ordered states in RMnO3 (R=La, Pr, Nd, Ca, Sr) and (La, Sr)2NiO4 |
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| Authors: | Li J Q Chen H Y Zhang H R Yu H C Shi Y G Liu L B Tian H F Zhu Y Tranquada J M |
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| Affiliation: | Beijing Laboratory of Electron Microscopy, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China. ljq@ssc.iphy.ac.cn |
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| Abstract: | Structural distortions arising from the condensations of two essential kinds of phonon modes: the triply degenerate rotational modes (phix, phiy, phiz) of MnO(6) and the doubly degenerate Jahn-Teller active modes (Q1, Q2) have been systematically investigated in the perovskite manganites. Microstructural features associated with certain types of distortions have been observed by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). In RMnO(3) and La(Sr)(2)NiO(4), we characterize the local structure, charge ordered states and orbital ordering by means of low-temperature TEM. We present direct evidence that the stripe modulation in La(Sr)(2)NiO(4) is indeed one-dimensional within each NiO(2) plane. Several typical kinds of defect structures, including antiphase boundaries and the 90 degrees -twin domains, appear commonly in the charge-ordered states. |
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