| Issue |
EPL
Volume 83, Number 1, July 2008
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 17009 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/83/17009 | |
| Published online | 13 June 2008 | |
Nanometer-scale phase separation in a colossal magnetoresistive manganite
1
Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids - Nöthnitzer Straße 40, 01187 Dresden, Germany, EU
2
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science - Bangalore 560012, India
Corresponding author: wirth@cpfs.mpg.de
Received:
5
May
2008
Accepted:
4
June
2008
Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy were conducted over a broad temperature range on single crystals of Pr0.68Pb0.32MnO3. Spectroscopic studies revealed inhomogeneous maps of the zero-bias conductance with a broad distribution of the local conductivities only within a narrow temperature range close to the metal-insulator transition. An analysis of the conductance histograms based on these maps gave direct evidence for phase separation into insulating and conducting areas. This phase separation was found to be confined only to the transition region.
PACS: 75.47.Lx – Manganites / 71.30.+h – Metal-insulator transitions and other electronic transitions / 68.37.Ef – Scanning tunneling microscopy (including chemistry induced with STM)
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