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Oxygen Vacancy Ordering And Magnetism In The Rare Earth Stabilised Perovskite Form Of “Srco3-D, M. James, D. Cassidy, K. F. Wilson, J. Horvat, R. L. Withers

Josip Horvat

We have demonstrated that SrCoO3-d can be stabilised into phase pure perovskite forms by the introduction of small amounts ~5% of certain rare earth ions (Sm3+ - Yb3+). At the same doping levels, La3+ and Pr3+ crystallise with the same isostructural trigonal structure as SrCoO3-d; while the Nd3+ composition shows a mixture of both structure types. Powder X-ray diffraction showed only a simple cubic perovskite structure, however a combination of electron and neutron diffraction has revealed a tetragonal (P4/mmm) ap x ap x 2ap superstructure. Strontium and the rare earth ions are disordered over a single site, while the oxygen …