Room temperature ferrimagnetism and ferroelectricity in strained, thin films of BiFe0.5Mn 0.5O3

Choi, Eun -Mi; Fix, Thomas; Kursumovic, Ahmed; Kinane, Christy J.; Arena, Darío; Sahonta, Suman -Lata; Bi, Zhenxing; Xiong, Jie; Yan, Li; Lee, Jun -Sik; Wang, Haiyan; Langridge, Sean; Kim, Young -Min; Borisevich, Albina Y.; MacLaren, Ian; Ramasse, Quentin M.; Blamire, Mark G.; Jia, Quanxi; MacManus-Driscoll, Judith L.

doi:10.1002/adfm.201401464

Room temperature ferrimagnetism and ferroelectricity in strained, thin films of BiFe_0.5Mn _0.5O₃

Journal Article · Tue Oct 14 00:00:00 EDT 2014 · Advanced Functional Materials

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201401464· OSTI ID:1212452

Choi, Eun -Mi ^[1]; Fix, Thomas ^[1]; Kursumovic, Ahmed ^[1]; Kinane, Christy J. ^[2]; Arena, Darío ^[3]; Sahonta, Suman -Lata ^[1]; Bi, Zhenxing ^[4]; Xiong, Jie ^[4]; Yan, Li ^[4]; Lee, Jun -Sik ^[5]; Wang, Haiyan ^[6]; Langridge, Sean ^[2]; Kim, Young -Min ^[7]; Borisevich, Albina Y. ^[8]; MacLaren, Ian ^[9]; Ramasse, Quentin M. ^[10]; Blamire, Mark G. ^[1]; Jia, Quanxi ^[4]; MacManus-Driscoll, Judith L. ^[1]

Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge (United Kingdom). Dept. of Materials Science
Rutherford Appleton Lab., Didcot (United Kingdom). ISIS, Science and Technology Facilities Council
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). National Synchrotron Light Source
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States). Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource
Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States). Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Materials Science and Technology Division; Korea Basic Science Institute, Daejeon (Republic of Korea). Division of Electron Microscopic Research
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Materials Science and Technology Division
Univ. of Glasgow, Glasgow (United Kingdom). SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy
SciTech Daresbury, Warrington (United Kingdom). SuperSTEM

In this study, highly strained films of BiFe_0.5Mn_0.5O₃ (BFMO) grown at very low rates by pulsed laser deposition were demonstrated to exhibit both ferrimagnetism and ferroelectricity at room temperature and above. Magnetization measurements demonstrated ferrimagnetism (T_C ~ 600K), with a room temperature saturation moment (M_S) of up to 90 emu/cc (~0.58μ_B/f.u) on high quality (001) SrTiO₃. X-ray magnetic circular dichroism showed that the ferrimagnetism arose from antiferromagnetically coupled Fe³⁺ and Mn³⁺ . While scanning transmission electron microscope studies showed there was no long range ordering of Fe and Mn, the magnetic properties were found to be strongly dependent on the strain state in the films. The magnetism is explained to arise from one of three possible mechanisms with Bi polarization playing a key role. A signature of room temperature ferroelectricity in the films was measured by piezoresponse force microscopy and was confirmed using angular dark field scanning transmission electron microscopy. The demonstration of strain induced, high temperature multiferroism is a promising development for future spintronic and memory applications at room temperature and above.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22); National Science Foundation (NSF); Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council; European Research Council

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396; AC02-98CH10886

OSTI ID:: 1212452

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1229333
OSTI ID: 1265328

Journal Information:: Advanced Functional Materials, Journal Name: Advanced Functional Materials Journal Issue: 47 Vol. 24; ISSN 1616-301X

Publisher:: WileyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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