STRUCTURAL, ELECTRICAL, AND MAGNETIC-PROPERTIES IN THE SYSTEM BAXLA1-XCOO3

A series of compounds with composition BaxLa1–xCoO3 (0 ≦ x ≦ 0.5) is synthesized. The rhombohedrally distorted perovskite LaCoO3 becomes cubic at x = 0.4. The electrical resistivity of the samples decreases with increasing x and the minimum lies between x = 0.2 and 0.3. The compounds with x ≧ 0.2 are ferromagnetic, but also possess a paramagnetic moment. At x = 0.5 the compound is metallic. The results can be explained by Zener double exchange as well as by Goodenough's itinerant electron ferromagnetism. Copyright © 1979 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA