“…The hole-doped perovskite manganese oxides with general formula Ln 1-x A x MnO 3 (Ln= La, Pr, Nd; A= Ca, Sr, Ba, Pb; x<0.5) draw considerable attention in the late 1990´s due to their colossal magneto-resistance (CMR) effect at low temperatures . In the search for new CMR materials it was observed that doping on Mn site by other transition metal elements, such as Cr, Fe, Co and Ni, was an effective way to obtain new materials, which also helped to understand the new phenomenon (Tai, 2000;Takeuchi, 2002;Ulyanov, 2007). Phase morphology, highly dependent on preparative conditions, was also observed to play an important role in the effect: low temperature CMR was improved as the grain size was reduced (Das, 2002).…”