Studies of Microstructure and Electro-Magnetic Transport Property of La0.67Ca0.33MnO3 Ceramic
The positron annihilation techniques and X-ray diffraction have been used to study the microstructure of the La0.67Ca0.33MnO3 ceramics prepared by the solid-state reaction method at different sintered temperatures (T=1573K, 1623K, 1673K, 1723K, 1773K, 1823K). And the electro-magnetic transport behavior of the samples was measured by VSM and Resistivity modular on PPMS. According to these results, all samples show a perovskite structure, the ferromagnetic-paramagnetic and metal-insulator transitions occur at the transition temperature Tc and TMI, respectively, which is almost the same. For La0.67Ca0.33MnO3 sintered at 1673K, the mean positron lifetime is the largest, the maximum value of the magnetization is achieved on the magnetization-temperature curve at H=0.2mT, while the transition temperature occurs at about 244K.