Photos from top: o3Bor via Flickr; kawazyness via Flickr; manganite via Flickr.    From Wordnik.com.  [Graham Hill: Lo-Tech Hi-Tech: The Simple Solutions All Around Us] Reference

The sesquioxide is found crystallized in an anhydrous form in braunite, and hydrated in manganite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883] Reference

Mesoscopic percolating resistance network in a strained manganite thin film.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Spectroscopic images of alternating lanthanum strontium manganite and strontium titanate layers.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

A metal oxide complex called lanthanum strontium manganite is ferromagnetic in large quantities.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

When the RIKEN team presented their manganite thin film and explained its phase separation properties, Shen had what he wanted.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Their microscope works by passing a fine tip over the surface of the manganite film while applying microwave-frequency electrical excitation.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

When the manganite was switched to its insulating state, and then back to its high-conductivity state, the filaments reappeared in the same locations.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

In fact, Kawasaki notes that the potential to develop radically new electronics devices is what first sparked the RIKEN team's interest in manganite thin films.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Such a technology would exploit the fact that insulating and metallic phases of the manganite thin film involve different electronic orbitals and can be controlled.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

In addition, the researchers were able to grow high-quality, single-crystal, thin manganite films by using pulsed-laser deposition, allowing phase transitions to be clearly observed.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

(PhysOrg. com) -- Using cutting-edge spectroscopy at atomic resolutions, researchers have discovered how to grow ultra-thin manganite films while retaining their magnetic properties.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Like iron ores, manganese ores consist principally of the oxides of manganese (pyrolusite, psilomelane, manganite, wad, and others), and rarely the carbonate of manganese (rhodochrosite).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference

Wako, Zhi-Xun Shen of Stanford University, USA, and their colleagues have produced unprecedented images of an important phase transition in a thin film made from the complex oxide, manganite.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

To examine manganite samples grown by their collaborators in Japan, the scientists used a technique called electron energy loss spectroscopy, performed in a scanning transmission electron microscope.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

This combination of an advanced microscope and high-quality thin film allowed the researchers to map the conductivity across a manganite film as it underwent the transition from low to high conductivity.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

The transition in question is characterized by an increase in the manganite film conductivity by a factor of 10,000 on application of a magnetic field at low temperature, and is an example of colossal magnetoresistance.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

These filaments, which consisted of a highly conducting metallic-like phase of manganite, began to form at very low magnetic fields, below the strengths required for the phase transition to complete, and grew as the magnetic field increased.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Using cutting-edge spectroscopy at atomic resolutions, researchers led by David A. Muller, professor of applied and engineering physics, have figured out why this happens, and how to grow ultra-thin manganite films while retaining their magnetic properties.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Moderately or weakly magnetic substances: arsenopyrite, chromite, hematite, ilmenite, limonite, manganite, wolframite, rhodochrosite, garnet, amphiboles and pyroxenes.    From Wordnik.com.  [1.1 Blow pipe assaying] Reference