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The effect of TiO2 doping on the structure and magnetic and magnetotransport properties of La0.75Sr0.25MnO3 (LSMO)∕xTiO2 has been investigated. These studies show that at low doping level (x⩽2) TiO2 mainly goes into the grain-boundary region, but at high doping level (x⩾3), some part of the TiO2 goes into the perovskite lattice substituting Mn in LSMO and the remainder segregates as a separate phase at the grain boundaries. Results also show that the TiO2 doping has an important effect on a low-field magnetoresistance. In the magnetic field of 8000Oe and at 77K a magnetoresistance value of ∼20% was observed for the composite with a TiO2 doping level of x=2.

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