@article{
author = "Kusigerski, Vladan and Marković, D. and Spasojević, Vojislav and Tadić, Marin and Zentkova, M. and Mihalik, M.",
year = "2010",
abstract = "Pressure effects on magnetic properties of two La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 nanoparticle samples with different mean particle sizes were investigated. Both the samples were prepared by the glycine-nitrate method: sample S-as-prepared (10 nm), and sample S-900-subsequently annealed at 900 A degrees C for 2 h (50 nm). Magnetization measurements revealed remarkable differences in magnetic properties with the applied pressure up to 0.75 GPa: (i) for S sample, both transition temperatures, para-to-ferromagnetic T (C) = 120 K and spin-glass-like transition T (f) = 102 K, decrease with the pressure with the respective pressure coefficients dT (C)/dP = -2.9 K/GPa and dT (f)/dP = -4.4 K/GPa; (ii) for S-900 sample, para-to-ferromagnetic transition temperature T (C) = 261 K increases with pressure with the pressure coefficient dT (C)/dP = 14.8 K/GPa. At the same time, saturation magnetization M (S) recorded at 10 K decreases/increases with pressure for S/S-900 sample, respectively. Explanation of these unusual pressure effects on the magnetism of sample S is proposed within the scenario of the combined contributions of two types of disorders present in the system: surface disorder introduced by the particle shell, and structural disorder of the particle core caused by the prominent Jahn-Teller distortion. Both disorders tend to vanish with the annealing of the system (i.e., with the nanoparticle growth), and so the behavior of the sample S-900 is similar to that previously observed for the bulk counterpart.",
journal = "Journal of Nanoparticle Research",
title = "Magnetic properties of nanoparticle La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 under applied hydrostatic pressure",
volume = "12",
number = "4",
pages = "1299-1306",
doi = "10.1007/s11051-010-9852-2"
}
