Sunday, November 1, 2009

Nanoscale phase competition accompanies colossal magnetoresistance

The CMR effect itself arises when the paramagnetic insulating phase yields to the ferromagnetic metallic phase. Now, Jing Tao of Brookhaven National Laboratory and her collaborators have found evidence that a charge-ordered, possibly antiferromagnetic phase plays a role too. Tao derived her results using a new technique, scanning electron nanodiffraction (SEND). The technique combines electron diffraction's ability to reveal the presence of ordered structures with scanning microscopy's ability to reveal those structures' real-space distribution.

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