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Strain engineering of the magnetic anisotropy and magnetic moment in NdFeO3 epitaxial thin films

Khaled, M. A., Ruvalcaba, J., Cordova-Fraga, T., Arnold, Donna C., Jaouen, N., Ohresser, P., Jouiad, M., Hoummada, K., Dkhil, B., El Marssi, M., and others. (2022) Strain engineering of the magnetic anisotropy and magnetic moment in NdFeO3 epitaxial thin films. Physical Review Materials, 6 (6). Article Number 064412. E-ISSN 2475-9953. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.6.064412) (KAR id:95188)

Abstract

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 to 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 keeps constant. Furthermore, different low temperature magnetic behaviours are evidenced for strained and relaxed films suggesting that the strain-induced structural state impacts the magnetic phase stability.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.6.064412
Subjects: Q Science > QD Chemistry
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Natural Sciences > Chemistry and Forensics
Funders: University of Kent (https://ror.org/00xkeyj56)
Depositing User: Donna Arnold
Date Deposited: 26 May 2022 13:35 UTC
Last Modified: 14 Jun 2023 14:51 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/95188 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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