Monday, April 29, 2013

1304.7200 (J. S. White et al.)

Strain-induced ferromagnetism in antiferromagnetic LuMnO3 thin films    [PDF]

J. S. White, M. Bator, Y. Hu, H. Luetkens, J. Stahn, S. Capelli, S. Das, M. Döbeli, Th. Lippert, V. K. Malik, J. Martynczuk, A. Wokaun, M. Kenzelmann, Ch. Niedermayer, C. W. Schneider
Single phase and strained LuMnO3 thin films are discovered to display co-existing ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic orders. A large moment ferromagnetism (approx. 1 muB), which is absent in bulk samples, is shown to display a magnetic moment distribution that is peaked at the highly-strained substrate-film interface. We further show that the strain-induced ferromagnetism and the antiferromagnetic order are coupled via an exchange field, therefore demonstrating strained rare-earth managanite thin films as promising candidate systems for new multifunctional devices.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.7200

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