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Substrate-induced magnetic anisotropy in La0.7Sr 0.3MnO3 epitaxial thin films grown onto (110) and (118) SrTiO3 substrates

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Substrate-induced magnetic anisotropy in La0.7Sr 0.3MnO3 epitaxial thin films grown onto (110) and (118) SrTiO3 substrates

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Title: Substrate-induced magnetic anisotropy in La0.7Sr 0.3MnO3 epitaxial thin films grown onto (110) and (118) SrTiO3 substrates
Author: Perna, Paolo; Rodrigo, C.; Jiménez, Erika; Mikuszeit, Nikolai; Terán, Francisco José; Méchin, Laurence; Camarero, Julio; Miranda, Rodolfo
Entity: UAM. Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada
UAM Author: Jiménez Romero, Erika ; Terán Garcinuño , Francisco José
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.; IOP Publishing Ltd.
Date: 2011-08-19
Citation: Journal of Physics: Conference Series 303.1 (2011): 012058
ISSN: 1742-6588 (print); 1742-6596 (online)
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/303/1/012058
Funded by: This work was supported in part by the Spanish MICINN through Project No. CSD2007-00010 and by the Comunidad de Madrid through Project No. S2009/MAT-1726. P.P. thanks the European Science Foundation (ESF) through the activity entitled ’Thin Films for Novel Oxide Devices’ (http://www.ims.tnw.utwente.nl/thiox/) for partial financial support through exchange grants
Project: Comunidad de Madrid. S2009/MAT-1726/NANOBIOMAGNET
Editor's Version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/303/1/012058
Subjects: Física
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10486/665388
Rights: © Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V.

Abstract:

We show a detailed magneto-optical Kerr study at room temperature of well characterized epitaxial La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 (LSMO) thin films grown onto (110) and (118) SrTiO3 substrates. The films present a well-defined uniaxial (two-fold) magnetic anisotropy ascribed to substrate-induced anisotropy. In particular, the in-plane uniaxial anisotropy in the(110)-oriented LSMO films originates from the existence of elongated in-plane [001]-oriented structures. Similar elongated structures, parallel to the [110] crystallographic direction, are found for LSMO films grown on (118) STO surfaces. In all films, such a uniaxial magnetic anisotropy is characterized by an easy axis lying along the elongated structures. Furthermore, the vectorial-resolved hysteresis loops as a function of the in-plane applied field direction are interpreted in terms of rotation and propagation and nucleation of magnetic domains processes. Our results demonstrate the tailoring of magnetic anisotropy by exploiting the substrate-induced anisotropy in epitaxial thin films

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G o o g l e ™ Scholar: Perna, Paolo - Rodrigo, C. - Jiménez, Erika - Mikuszeit, Nikolai - Terán, Francisco José - Méchin, Laurence - Camarero, Julio - Miranda, Rodolfo

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