Published December 2, 2002 | Version v1
Journal article

Electronic distribution in the Ba2FeMoO6 double perovskite; the A-site size effect

  • 1. Laboratoire CRISMAT, UMR 6508 Associee au CNRS, ISMRA et Universite de Caen, 6 Boulevard du Marechal Juin, 14050 Caen (France)
  • 2. LLB-Saclay, 91151 Gif sur Yvette (France)
  • 3. Laboratoire de Physique de l'Etat Condense, UMR CNRS 6087, Universite du Maine, 72085 Le Mans Cedex 9 (France)

Description

The double perovskite Ba2FeMoO6 has been studied by neutron powder diffraction, Moessbauer spectrometry and x-ray absorption spectroscopy, and is compared with Sr2FeMoO6. It is shown that the size of the A-site cation has a large effect upon the nature of the low-temperature state, favouring the majority Fe2+/Mo6+ pair in the case of barium and the Fe3+/Mo5+ pair in the case of strontium. In both cases, an electronic transfer appears as T decreases, interpreted as the existence of a minority t2g ↓ narrow band, where the electron is itinerant

Availability note (English)

Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/0953-8984/14/12629/c24733.pdf or at the Web site for the Journal of Physics. Condensed Matter (ISSN 1361-648X) http://www.iop.org/

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Journal Title
Journal of Physics. Condensed Matter
Journal Volume
14
Journal Issue
47
Journal Page Range
p. 12629-12640
ISSN
0953-8984
CODEN
JCOMEL