Coherent magnon and acoustic phonon dynamics in tetragonal and rare-earth-doped BiFeO3 multiferroic thin films

Autor: R. A. Synowicki, Neil McN. Alford, James Lloyd-Hughes, V. R. Palkar, Anna-Karin Axelsson, R. D. Johnson, Frederic Aguesse, S. P. P. Jones, K. I. Doig, S. Nawaz
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
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Popis: Coherent magnons and acoustic phonons were impulsively excited and probed in thin films of the room temperature multiferroic Bi${}_{1\ensuremath{-}x\ensuremath{-}y}$Dy${}_{x}$La${}_{y}$FeO${}_{3}$ using femtosecond laser pulses. The elastic moduli of rhombohedral, tetragonal, and rare-earth doped BiFeO${}_{3}$ were determined from acoustic-mode frequencies in conjunction with spectroscopic ellipsometry. A weak ferromagnetic order, induced alternately by magnetization in the growth direction or by tetragonality, created a magnon oscillation at 75 GHz, indicative of a Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction energy of 0.31 meV.
Databáze: OpenAIRE