Chemical and Physical Pressure Effects on the Magnetic and Transport Properties of the A-Site Ordered Perovskite Sr3YCo4O10.5

We have measured and analysed the magnetization, resistivity and thermopower of polycrystalline samples of Ca-subsituted Sr3YCo4O10.5. While the transition temperature and thermopower systematically decrease with increasing Ca content, the resistivity is nearly independent of the Ca-substitution level. We have furhter found that the substitution of Ca for Sr systematically decreases the lattice paremeters while maintaining the oxygen content unchanged, and have explained the Ca-substitution effects in terms of the spin-state transition induced by chemical pressure. We have also measured the magnetization of one of the samples under hydrostatic pressure. The result shows that the physical-pressure effect is semiquantitatively consistent with the chemical-pressure effect.