Optical investigations ofLa7/8Sr1/8MnO3

Abstract
We investigated temperature-dependent optical conductivity spectra of La7/8Sr1/8MnO3. Its phonon bending mode starts to be splitted near a structural phase-transition temperature. With further cooling, the strength of a midinfrared small polaron peak, which is located at 0.4 eV, becomes increased. These temperature-dependent changes in the phonon spectra and the polaron absorption peaks were explained by a phase separation and a percolation-type transition.
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