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Direct neutron-diffraction-based measurement of magnetic order in brownmillerite SrCoO2.5 and La0.5Sr0.5CoO2.5 thin films

Journal Article · · APL Materials
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0196646· OSTI ID:2426044
Epitaxial cobaltites have emerged as exemplary materials for electrochemical gating, in large part due to their topotactic perovskite (P) ↔ brownmillerite (BM) transformations. SrCoO3-δ, for example, can be cycled between metallic ferromagnetic P SrCoO3 and insulating BM SrCoO2.5, realizing exceptional modulation of electronic, thermal, and optical properties. It is often presumed that such cycling also generates ferromagnetic–antiferromagnetic (F-AF) modulation due to the G-type AF order in bulk SrCoO2.5. Little is understood about magnetism in thin-film BM SrCoO2.5, however, meaning that the true magnetic property modulation is unclear. We address this here through a neutron diffraction study of BM La1-xSrxCoO2.5 films at x = 0.5 and 1.0. Lightly compressively strained SrCoO2.5 films are shown to retain G-type AF order, albeit with suppressed Néel temperature (~340 K). Of high interest for AF spintronics, room-temperature F–AF cycling is thus possible across the SrCoO3-δ P ↔ BM transformation. At x = 0.5, however, BM La0.5Sr0.5CoO2.5 films are found to exhibit no detectable G-type AF order but instead weak F order (Curie temperature ~115 K), unveiling a La0.5Sr0.5CoO3-δ phase diagram with two distinct F phases. These results thus uncover new, unanticipated magnetic phase behavior in these materials, in addition to being directly relevant to cobaltite-based magnetoionics.
Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR)
Sponsoring Organization:
National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-00OR22725; SC0016371
OSTI ID:
2426044
Journal Information:
APL Materials, Journal Name: APL Materials Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 12; ISSN 2166-532X
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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