Published March 13, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Relationship between spin state of Co ions and thermopower in La1-xSrxCoO3(0=<x=<0.5)

  • 1. Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027 (China)
  • 2. Department of Physics, China Institute of Metrology, Hangzhou 310018 (China)
  • 3. Colleage of Information Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032 (China)

Description

We report the evolution of magnetic properties and thermopower (S) of the La1-xSrxCoO3 (0==0.2, and the temperature dependence of magnetic susceptibility can be fitted to the Curie-Weiss law for T>TC. Assuming that the Co3+ ions are in the intermediate spin (IS) state, the spin of Co4+ ions is 2.25 determined from DC magnetic susceptibility, which means that the most Co4+ ions should be in the high spin (HS) state. The room-temperature thermopower, S (300 K), can be described by the modified Heikes formula assuming that the Co3+ ions are in the IS state, and the most Co4+ ions are in the HS state. The results suggest that both the degeneracy of charge carriers and the strong electron correlation play important roles in determining the thermopower in cobalt oxides

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physleta.2005.11.027;
PII
S0375-9601(05)01747-0;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. A
Journal Volume
351
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
p. 431-434
ISSN
0375-9601
CODEN
PYLAAG

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Copyright (c) 2005 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.