PRESSURE EFFECT ON YTTRIUM DOPED LA0.60Y0.07CA0.33MNO3 COMPOUND

We report the effect of hydrostatic pressure up to 8 kbar on magnetoel astic, magnetic, and transport properties in the temperature range 10- 300 K. An increase of Curie temperature T-c with pressure Delta T-c/De lta p=2.6 K/kbar was determined from ac susceptibility measurements. T he anomalies in resistivity and magnetovolume effects are significantl y suppressed by pressure but the temperatures of these anomalies incre ased with pressure with the same slope as T-c. These results indicate that impurity state of yttrium rather than lattice parameter reduction is responsible for the large increase in the magnetoresistance observ ed in the doped compound. (C) 1995 American Institute of Physics.