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Effect of sodium doping on thermal properties of perovskite r mn o3 for potential magnetoelectric applications
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Effect of Sodium Doping on Thermal Properties of Perovskite
RMnO3 for Potential Magnetoelectric Applications
Archana Srivastava
Department of Physics, Sri Sathya Sai College for Women, Bhopal 462024, India
Tel: 00917552660186 E-mail: archanasaran@rediffmail.com
Rasna Thakur
Department of Physics, Barkatullah University, Bhopal 462026, India
Tel: 00917552491821 E-mail: rasanathakur@yahoo.com
N.K.Gaur
Department of Physics, Barkatullah University, Bhopal 462026, India
Tel: 00917552491821 E-mail: srl_nkgaur@yahoo.co.in
Abstract
The partial replacement of rare earth cation by sodium introduces large size and charge mismatch at A-site
affecting the bulk modulus and thermal properties of RMnO3 which in turn makes them suitable candidates for
thermoelectric applications. Thermal, elastic, cohesive properties of sodium doped Rare Earth manganites R1-
xNaxMnO3 (R3+
= La, Pr, Tb) has been studied by means of a Modified Rigid Ion Model (MRIM) and AIM theory.
Lattice specific heat (Cp) of Pr0.8Na0.2MnO3, and Tb0.85Na0.15MnO3 as a function of temperature (1K≤T≤ 350K) is
found to be in agreement with the published data. The trend of variation of Debye temperature (θD), thermal
expansion (α), bulk modulus (B) and cohesive energy (φ) with A-site cationic radius is predicted probably for the
first time for these technologically important doped rare earth manganites.
Keywords: Thermal Expansion, Specific Heat, Thermal properties, Colossal Magnetoresistance Materials,
Magnetoelectric materials.
1. Introduction
The multiferroic materials with the coexistence of (anti)ferromagnetic and (anti)ferroelectric properties are one
of the best candidates to enhance the magnetoelectric (ME) effects. It is reported that substitution of monovalent
ions (K+
, Rb+
, Na+
, Ag+
) for La in LaMnO3 results in increased magneto-resistance and large magneto-caloric
effect [Tao et al. 2000; Tang et al. 2000]. The ferroelectric polarization has been found to develop in
Tb0.85Na0.15MnO3 with the polarization vector pointing along the longest crystallographic direction [Chan, et al.
2007]. Pr0.8Na0.2MnO3 is a charge ordered system which is a paramagnetic insulator at ambient conditions and
exhibits an electrically insulating pseudo-CE type antiferromagnetic (AFM) state at low temperatures. Under
high externe pressures, structural changes in Pr0.8Na0.2MnO3 are accompanied by an insulator–metal transition
[Hejtmaek, et al. 2001]. At normal conditions, the system undergoes a charge ordering transition at TCO = 215 K,
followed by an antiferromagnetic arrangement of the pseudo-CE type at TN = 175 K. Experimentalists have
studied the magnetic properties of these compounds well but no attempts were made to determine their thermal
and elastic properties.
The ionic radius of Na+
Å (ionic radius =1.39Å CN 12) is larger than largest lanthanide La3+
(ionic radius =1.36Å
CN 12) and the effect of this doping in RMnO3 (R=La, Pr, Tb) is to increase the A-site cation radius and eg one
electron bandwidth of the manganites [Tao et al. 2000; Tang et al. 2000]. The insulator–metal transition
temperature TI-M is expected to increase and possible stabilization of ferromagnetic state at room temperature can
be achieved paving the way for magnetoelectric applications. So, it seems worthwhile to investigate the static
cohesive, elastic (bulk modulus (B)) and thermodynamic properties like Debye temperature (θD) Specific heat
(Cp) and volume thermal expansion ( )) at low temperatures and at room temperature as well of these
technologically important manganites.
We investigate here three potential magnetoelectric compounds La0.85Na0.15MnO3, Pr0.8Na0.2MnO3, and
Tb0.85Na0.15MnO3 for their elastic, cohesive and thermal properties. The studied samples of Tb0.85Na0.15MnO3,
Pr0.8Na0.2MnO3 exhibited Pbnm symmetry within the orthorhombic setting and La0.85Na0.15MnO3 showed
rhombohedral symmetry [Malavasi , et al. 2005].
2. Interaction Potential
The potential to describe the interatomic interactions of these materials within modified Rigid Ion Model
(MRIM) is formulated as
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3. Results and Discussions
To reveal the specific heat, the values of input data like unit cell parameters (a, b, c) and some interionic
distances are taken from refs. [Malavasi , et al. 2005, Yang, et al. 2008, Kozlenko et al. 2003] for (La,
Tb)0.85Na0.15MnO3, Pr0.8Na0.2MnO3. We have applied MRIM to compute the model parameters and Debye
temperature of these manganites and AIM theory [Pendas, et al. 2000] to compute bulk modulus on the similar
lines as described earlier [Thakur et al. 2012: Srivastava et al. 2009]. The results are reported in Table 1 and are
compared with the available data there [Srivastava et al. 2009; Kovaleva , et al. 2002, Kamilov, et al. 2007].
The cohesive energy is the measure of strength of the force binding the atoms together in solids. This fact is
exhibited from our cohesive energy results which indicate increase in stability with decrease of A-site cation
radius (Table 1). Besides, we studied the temperature evolution of the lattice specific heat (Cp) of
Tb0.85Na0.15MnO3over the temperature range 1K ≤ T ≤ 100K (Fig. 1(a)) and of Pr0.8Na0.2MnO3 in 10K ≤ T ≤
350K (Fig. 1(b)). It is found to show satisfactory match with the experimental values of Yang et al. (2006) and
Hejtmaek et al (2001) at higher temperatures using HT Debye temperature and at low temperature using LT
Debye temperature respectively which again establishes the validity of using two Debye temperature model
[Thakur et al. 2012: Srivastava et al. 2009] to describe the specific heat of manganites. A sharp peak can be seen
in Figure 1(b) in the experimental curves at their respective Neel temperature due to spin interactions. This
feature can be revealed in the calculated curves by including the ferromagnetic spin interactions in the
framework of our MRIM. It can be concluded that MRIM is successful in predicting the thermal properties of
doped manganites and the findings indicate that cohesive energy decreases and Debye temperature
increases with the decrease of A-site cation radius. The increase in θD indicates that an anomalous hardening
of the lattice or decrease in T3
-term in the specific heat occurs with the decrease of A-site cation radius. The
specific heat correspondingly decreases with decreasing A-site cation radius. These results of specific heat
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and volume thermal expansion are crucial in deciding the compatibility of different components of
thermoelectric devices and they reveal the electron lattice coupling as well of these compounds, suggesting
strong coupling between their various degrees of freedom.
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R/x rA(Å)
/Structure
(B) (GPa)
(LT)
b1 x 10-
19
(J)
b2 x 10-19
(J)
ρ1
(Å)
ρ2
(Å)
Φ (eV)
(MRIM)
ΘD (K)
LT
ΘD (K)
(RT)
(10 -
5
/K) (RT)
La/0.15
For x=0
1.365/R 107.7
108 a
0.323 1.243 0.185 0.335 -139.0
-139.4 b
371.3
370c
560.5 4.53
3.0c
Pr/0.2 1.192/O 125.0 0.212 1.027 0.180 0.353 -144.5 405.9 577.7 4.54
Tb/0.15 1.117/O 194.9 0.069 0.246 0.134 0.192 -155.8 491.9 692.0 3.87
a
ref. (Srivastava et al. 2009), b
ref. ( Kovaleva, et al. 2002), c
ref. ( Kozlenko, et al. 2003) for La0.85Ag0.15MnO3
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Tb0.85Na0.15MnO3
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1.0
1.2
0 20 40 60 80
T(K)
C/T(J/moleK
2
)
Cal.
Exp.
(a) Pr0.8Na0.2MnO3
0
40
80
120
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350
T(K)
Cp(J/moleK)
Cal. LT
Cal. HT
Exp.
(b)
FIGURE 1. (a) C/T against temperature for Tb0.85Na0.15MnO3 with the experimental data of Yang et al (2006)
(b) Variation of Cp with temperature of Pr0.8Na0.2MnO3 and experimental data of Hejtmaek et al (2001)
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