Correlation of Magnetoresistance and Thermoelectric Power in La1-xLixMnOy Compounds英文文献资料.docVIP

J. Electromagnetic Analysis Applications, 2011, 3, 27-32 27 doi:10.4236/jemaa.2011.31005 Published Online January 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/jemaa) Correlation of Magnetoresistance and Thermoelectric Power in La1-xLixMnOy Compounds Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed , Mahrous Rashad Ahmed , Saad Abed El Rahman Ahmed 1* 1,2 1 1 2 Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt; Physics Department, University College, Um-Elqura University, Makkah, KSA. * Email: Fikry_99@ Received November 25 , 2010; revised December 1 , 2010; accepted December 20 , 2010. th st th ABSTRACT The temperature dependences of the thermoelectric power, TEP, (S) and magnetoresistance (MR) effect of La1-xLixMnOy (x = 0.05, 0.1, 0.15, 0.2 0.25 at %) fixed valence doped compounds were studied between 80K and 320K. X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) showed that the samples are single phase. We found the correlation of structures to the mag- netoresistance (MR) and the thermoelectric power (S) which we assigned to change the specific branches of the magnon /phonon spectra with x. We also observed a splitting of the Curie and the metal insulating temperature TC Tms. Keywords: Thermoelectric Power, Magnetoresistance, the Curie Temperature 1. Introduction In general, the thermal variation of the electrical resis- tivity for both divalent and monovalent lanthanum man- ganites are known to be dominated by polaronic transport for T Tc [15,20], while below Tc, electron–electron and electron–magnon interactions are usually believed to do- minate the conductivity [21-23]. Seebeck coefficient has also been subject of several studies [15,21,24-26], par- ticularly in d