Journal of Electron Microscopy 47(4): 327-333 (1998)
© 1998 Oxford University Press
HREM and molecular dynamics studies of oxygen-defective LaMnO3x
Department of Chemistry and Material Science, Kyoto University of Education Fushimi-ku, Kyoto612¯0863, Japan.E-mail: shiba{at}wsml.kyokyo-u.ac.jp
The stability of an oxygen-defective structure of LaMnO3x was studied by MD simulation. The relaxed structure based on the MD simulation could provide sufficient adequate information to discuss the proposed structure model of LaMnO3x compared with the observed image contrast by HREM. Image calculation of the relaxed structure by the multislice method also supported the proposed defect structure model. Analysis of the atomic structure by MD simulation gave the information of oxygen ion and cation migration in oxygen-defective perovskite.
Keywords molecular dynamics, perovskite, HREM, LaMnO3, oxygen defects, GMR
Received 28 October 1997, accepted 7 May 1998