Publication
Title
Controlled lateral anisotropy in correlated manganite heterostructures by interface-engineered oxygen octahedral coupling
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Abstract
Controlled in-plane rotation of the magnetic easy axis in manganite heterostructures by tailoring the interface oxygen network could allow the development of correlated oxide-based magnetic tunnelling junctions with non-collinear magnetization, with possible practical applications as miniaturized high-switching-speed magnetic random access memory (MRAM) devices. Here, we demonstrate how to manipulate magnetic and electronic anisotropic properties in manganite heterostructures by engineering the oxygen network on the unit-cell level. The strong oxygen octahedral coupling is found to transfer the octahedral rotation, present in the NdGaO3 (NGO) substrate, to the La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 (LSMO) film in the interface region. This causes an unexpected realignment of the magnetic easy axis along the short axis of the LSMO unit cell as well as the presence of a giant anisotropic transport in these ultrathin LSMO films. As a result we possess control of the lateral magnetic and electronic anisotropies by atomic-scale design of the oxygen octahedral rotation.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Nature materials. - London, 2002, currens
Publication
London : 2016
ISSN
1476-1122 [print]
1476-4660 [online]
DOI
10.1038/NMAT4579
Volume/pages
15 :4 (2016) , p. 425-431
ISI
000372591700017
Pubmed ID
26950593
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UAntwerpen
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Research group
Project info
Interfacing Oxides (IFOX).
Revealing the source of emergent properties in complex oxides via direct imaging of charge/orbital/spin ordering.
Exploring electron vortex beams (VORTEX).
ESTEEM 2 - Enabling science and technology through European electron microscopy.
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Publications with a UAntwerp address
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