Impurity centers and host microstructure in weakly doped SrTiO 3:Mn crystals: New findings

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Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), optical absorption and low-frequency (100 Hz - 1 MHz) dielectric permittivity investigations on Verneuil as-grown and reduced SrTiO3:Mn (0.1% at.) crystals were carried out to establish connection between the structure of Mn doping related centers and the SrTiO3 dielectric properties. At room temperature the EPR spectrum of as-grown crystals evidences isotropic Mn4+ and Mn2+ centers. The Mn2+/Mn4+ ratio increases, according to the EPR spectra, by decreasing the temperature and the signals intensity of both centers strongly decreases approaching T∼120 K. Such behavior is attributed to antiferromagnetic interaction in MnO and MnO2 nano-clusters. Also the dielectric permittivity behavior evidences samples inhomogeneity as well as absence of pronounced dielectric relaxation in as grown crystals. In reduced crystals the Mn2+ concentration increases and the dielectric relaxation emerges evidencing a polaronic-related nature of dipole reorientations. © 2007 IOP Publishing Ltd.

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Badalyan, A. G., Azzoni, C. B., Galinetto, P., Mozzati, M. C., Trepakov, V. A., Savinov, M., … Rosa, J. (2007). Impurity centers and host microstructure in weakly doped SrTiO 3:Mn crystals: New findings. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 93(1). https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/93/1/012012

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