Efeitos de tensão em filmes finos de manganitas estudados por espectroscopia de absorção de raios-X com luz linearmente polarizada

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2003

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Among the materials exhibiting the Colossal Magnetoresistance e effect, mixed manganite thin films have received special attention due to their potential applications for new generation magneto-eletronic devices. In these systems, the external biaxial strain could be used to tune the magnetism and transport properties if it were possible to settle the exact relationship between both e effects. In this scope, it is important to address the explicit connection between the cell induced strains and the local structure around the manganese atoms, specially the Mn - O distances and the Mn - O - Mn angle. In this dissertation, we report on a X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy study of La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 thin films epitaxially grown by pulsed laser deposition on tensile (SrTiO3) and compressive (LaAlO3) substrates. Mn K and L2,3 edges data were collected at the D04B-XAS and D08A-SGM beamlines of the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Source, respectively. In plane and out of plane bond contributions were obtained by a natural linear dichroism approach for the absorption measurementes of structural anisotropic materials. Ab initio calculations using the Full Multiple Scattering approach was used to understand the found experimental e effects. XANES spectra give evidence of tetragonal distortion within the MnO6 octahedra,with opposite directions for tensile and compressive films. This was confirmed by ab initio simulations and we show that the best structural model to explain experimental data is that of distorted MnO6 average octahedra and without any change in the Mn - O - Mn angle.Some evidence of orthorhombic distortion also was observed in the XANES region. EXAFS data collected in plane for tensile substrate, indicate a orthorhombic distortion of octahedron and also confirm the change in the Mn - O average bond distance. Also by EXAFS was possible conclude that no change of Mn - O - Mn angle is induced by the strain. The distortion of octahedra explains the decrease of Curie temperature (TC) with the strain effects. 3d conduction band changes, induced by the strain and by intense x-ray exposition, were observed. A correlation model between these effects and the structural distortion of films is not clear yet

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espectroscopia de raio x oxidos de manganes sincrotron polarização (luz) filmes finos

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