Strain engineering of the magnetic anisotropy and magnetic moment in NdFeO 3 epitaxial thin films
| Autor: | M. A. Khaled, J. Ruvalcaba, T. Cordova-Fraga, D. C. Arnold, N. Jaouen, P. Ohresser, M. Jouiad, K. Hoummada, B. Dkhil, M. El Marssi, H. Bouyanfif |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée - UR UPJV 2081 (LPMC), Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV), Universidad de Guanajuato, University of Kent [Canterbury], Synchrotron SOLEIL (SSOLEIL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut des Matériaux, de Microélectronique et des Nanosciences de Provence (IM2NP), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Structures, Propriétés et Modélisation des solides (SPMS), Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-CentraleSupélec-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ANR-21-CE42-0030,THz-MUFINS,Dynamiques THz dans les nanostructures et super-réseaux de matériaux multiferroïques(2021) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Physical Review Materials Physical Review Materials, 2022, 6 (6), pp.064412. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.6.064412⟩ |
| ISSN: | 2475-9953 |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.6.064412⟩ |
| Popis: | Strain engineering is a powerful mean for tuning the various functionalities of ABO3 perovskite oxide thin films. Rare-earth orthoferrite RFeO3 materials such as NdFeO3 (NFO) are of prime interest because of their intriguing magnetic properties as well as their technological potential applications especially as thin films. Here, using a large set of complementary and advanced techniques, we show that NFO epitaxial thin films, successfully grown by pulsed laser deposition on (001)-SrTiO3, show a strong magnetic anisotropy below a critical thickness tc of 54 nm, associated with the occurrence of structural modifications related to symmetry and domain pattern changes. By varying the tensile misfit strain through the decrease of film thickness below tc, the amplitudes of in and out-of-plane magnetization can be continuously tuned while their ratio stays constant. Furthermore, different low-temperature magnetic behaviors are evidenced for strained and relaxed films, suggesting that the strain-induced structural state impacts the magnetic phase stability. |
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