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arXiv 1509.04775cond-mat.mtrl-sci
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锰钛酸盐异质结构中的畴分辨室温磁电耦合

Domain-resolved room-temperature magneto-electric coupling in manganite-titanate heterostructures

Rajesh Vilas Chopdekar, Michele Buzzi, Catherine Ann Jenkins, Elke Arenholz, Frithjof Nolting, Yayoi Takamura

摘要:

提出了一个由(0 11)取向铁电Pb(Mg,Nb,Ti)O $_3$衬底和铁磁(La,Sr)MnO $_3$薄膜通过外延应变和逆压电效应紧密耦合组成的人工多铁性系统模型.小于6 kV/cm的电场脉冲序列被示出在锰氧化物膜中诱导大的可逆和可逆应变。磁滞回线表明,应变状态的变化导致磁各向异性的显着变化,从一个高度各向异性的双重磁对称性,以更各向同性的。磁各向异性的这种变化在多次循环后是可逆的,并且在零施加电场下是稳定的,并且伴随着电阻率的大变化。我们直接使用X射线光电子显微镜图像的双重和各向同性的磁性配置之间的变化,在一个单一的铁磁畴的规模作为施加电场脉冲的函数。作为电场的函数的畴反转过程的成像示出了用于磁化反转的能垒通过由铁电衬底产生的各向异性应变变化而急剧降低,如从自由能计算确定的高达70%。因此,一个电场脉冲可以用来“设置”和“重置”的磁各向异性取向和电阻状态的膜,以及降低所需的矫顽场反转磁化,显示了一个有前途的路线在室温下的多功能纳米结构的电场操纵。

英文摘要:

We present a model artificial multiferroic system consisting of a (011)-oriented ferroelectric Pb(Mg,Nb,Ti)O$_3$ substrate intimately coupled to a ferromagnetic (La,Sr)MnO$_3$ film through epitaxial strain and converse piezoelectric effects. Electric field pulse sequences of less than 6 kV/cm were shown to induce large reversible and bistable remanent strains in the manganite film. Magnetic hysteresis loops demonstrate that the changes in strain states result in significant changes in magnetic anisotropy from a highly anisotropic two-fold magnetic symmetry to a more isotropic one. Such changes in magnetic anisotropy are reversible upon multiple cycles and are stable at zero applied electric field, and are accompanied by large changes in resistivity. We directly image the change between the two-fold and isotropic magnetic configurations at the scale of a single ferromagnetic domain using X-ray photoemission electron microscopy as a function of applied electric field pulses. Imaging the domain reversal process as a function of electric field shows that the energy barrier for magnetization reversal is drastically lowered, by up to 70% as determined from free energy calculations, through the anisotropic strain change generated by the ferroelectric substrate. Thus, an electric field pulse can be used to 'set' and 'reset' the magnetic anisotropy orientation and resistive state in the film, as well as lowering the coercive field required to reverse magnetization, showing a promising route towards electric-field manipulation of multifunctional nanostructures at room temperature.

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