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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2011
The specific features of structural transformations in lanthanum manganite are analyzed in terms of the macrosymmetry conservation principle. The possible mechanisms of phase transformations are proposed reasoning from a sequence of structural transitions, including the restoration of a virtual configuration of cubic perovskite with double the lattice parameter. It has been synthesized and investigated three phases Pnma I, Pnma II, R3c. It has been shown by X-ray diffraction analysis and Mössbauer spectroscopy that the transition from the Pnma I to Pnma II phase in LaMnO3+d compound occurs through the intermediate phase Pnma II* virtually by “jump”. The HEED investigations of the synthesized phases have shown that the Pnma I and R3c phases have the expected simple pattern whereas the electron-diffraction pattern of the Pnma II phase strongly differs.