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The synthesis of ferromagnetic La0.75Ca0.25MnO3 nanowires by a sol-gel method

F. E. ATALAY1,* , V. YAGMUR1, S. ATALAY1, H. KAYA1, S TARI2, D. AVSAR1

Affiliation

  1. Inonu University, Science and Art Faculty, Department of Physics, Malatya 44280, Turkey
  2. IYTE, Science Faculty, Department of Physics, Izmir, Turkey

Abstract

In this study, densely packed La0.75Ca0.25MnO3 (LCMO) nanowires were synthesized within a porous anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) template by means of a sol-gel method using nitrate as raw material and ethylene glycol as the chelating agent. It was observed from measurements of hysteresis curves that the magnetic behavior of the LCMO nanowire arrays was strongly dependent on the pH of the solution. As it has been reported that bulk polycrystalline La0.75Ca0.25MnO3 samples have a Curie temperature of 224 K [1], it is interesting to find that nanowires produced at pH 3 show ferromagnetic properties at room temperature.

Keywords

Manganites, Nanowires, Sol-gel, Ferromagnetism.

Submitted at: Sept. 14, 2009
Accepted at: Feb. 18, 2010

Citation

F. E. ATALAY, V. YAGMUR, S. ATALAY, H. KAYA, S TARI, D. AVSAR, The synthesis of ferromagnetic La0.75Ca0.25MnO3 nanowires by a sol-gel method, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials Vol. 12, Iss. 2, pp. 392-396 (2010)