Structure, magnetic and magnetic transport properties of layered cobaltite Sr0.9Y0.1CoO2.63
The structure, magnetic and magnetotransport properties of perovskite Sr0.9Y0.1CoO2.63are studied. It is shown that the sample is structurally two-phase. The main phase has a tetragonal-distorted unit cell and is described by the spatial group I4/mmm. The broadening of the reflexes with indexes corresponding to a doubling of the parameter from the unit cell indicates that there is no strict translational symmetry along the с-axis. The presence of a broadened superstructural reflex observed at small angles on X-ray diffraction patterns at temperatures below 400 K is due to the monoclinic phase, whose content is much smaller than the tetragonal phase. Spontaneous magnetization appears during the formation of the monoclinic phase. The magnetic structure is predominantly an antiferromagnetic G-type structure with magnetic moments of 1.5µBin the layers of CoO6octahedra and 2µBin the anion-deficient CoO4+γlayers. The electrical conductivity of Sr0.9Y0.1CoO2.63has a semiconductor in character. The magnetoresistance reaches 57 % in a field of 14 T at a temperature of 5 K and decreases strongly with increasing temperature.