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Effect of Ca Doping on Magnetic Properties of Lanthanum Chromate LaCrO3

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Doped LaCrO3 has been widely concerned because of its rich physical properties and application potential. The effect of Ca doping on crystal structure and magnetic properties of LaCrO3 was investigated here. Parent phase LaCrO3 and La0.67Ca0.33CrO3 were firstly synthesized in air at different sintering temperature (900 ~ 1500 ℃) to study the phase formation process, before synthesizing a series of La1-xCaxCrO3 (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.5) samples. It was not until the sintering temperature was increased to 1400 ℃ for LaCrO3 that the raw material completely reacted to form single-phase samples. For La0.67Ca0.33CrO3, with the increase of sintering temperature, Ca began to enter the lattice of LaCrO3 (950 ℃), La0.67Ca0.33CrO3 phase with a small amount of unreacted Cr2O3 formed (1050 ℃), and single-phase La0.67Ca0.33CrO3 formed (1200 ℃) successively. A series of single phase La1-xCaxCrO3 samples with x = 0 ~ 0.5 were obtained by sintering at 1400 ℃. Their crystal structure was characterized by X-ray diffraction and refined. Magnetization measurements indicated that magnetic transition temperature was persistently suppressed with increasing Ca doping content, and the magnetic structure below transition temperature has undergone significant changes.

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Yongliang Chen gratefully acknowledges support from the Foundation of Key Laboratory of Magnetic Suspension Technology and Maglev Vehicle, Ministry of Education.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11104224 and 11004162) and the Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (20110184120029).

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    Wei Yin, Wenyong Li, Mingchao Li, Yajing Cui, Yong Zhao & Yongliang Chen

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    Wei Yin, Yajing Cui & Yong Zhao

  3. Fujian Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced High-Field Superconducting Materials and Engineering, Fuzhou, 350117, China

    Yong Zhao

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Yin, W., Li, W., Li, M. et al. Effect of Ca Doping on Magnetic Properties of Lanthanum Chromate LaCrO3. J Supercond Nov Magn 35, 1967–1974 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10948-022-06293-7

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