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Enhancing spin state phase separation by strontium addition in the Y (Ba(1-x)Sr(x))Co(2)O(5.5) layered cobaltite
G Aurelio1, J Curiale, R D Sánchez
1Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Centro Atómico Bariloche-Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Avenida Bustillo 9500, 8400 San Carlos de Bariloche, RN, Argentina.
Abstract:
In this paper we present a neutron diffraction study of the effects of replacing Ba with smaller Sr cations in the layered cobaltite YBaCo(2)O(5+δ) for δ≈0.5. Neutron thermodiffractograms are reported in the temperature range 20 K≤T≤300 K, as well as high-resolution neutron diffraction experiments at selected temperatures. The systematic refinement of the series of samples with Sr substituting at the Ba site permits the understanding of the complex magnetic behaviour of this system, and reinforces a two-phase scenario for the parent compound. We have found that Sr addition destabilizes the ferrimagnetic spin state ordered phase, as well as the '122' order characteristic of cobaltites with δ = 0.5, favouring instead a tetragonal and less ordered structure.
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