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Title: Tuning interfacial exchange interactions via electronic reconstruction in transition-metal oxide heterostructures

Abstract

The impact of interfacial electronic reconstruction on the magnetic characteristics of La 0.7 Sr 0.3 CoO 3 (LSCO)/La 0.7 Sr 0.3 MnO 3 (LSMO) heterostructures was investigated as a function of layer thickness using a combination of soft x-ray magnetic spectroscopy and bulk magnetometry. We found that the magnetic properties of the LSCO layers are impacted by two competing electronic interactions occurring at the LSCO/substrate and LSMO/LSCO interfaces. For thin LSCO layers ( < 5 nm), the heterostructures exist in a highly coupled state where the chemically distinct layers behave as a single magnetic compound with magnetically active Co 2+ ions. As the LSCO thickness increases, a high coercivity LSCO layer develops which biases a low coercivity layer, which is composed not only of the LSMO layer but also an interfacial LSCO layer. These results suggest an intriguing route to tune the magnetic properties of transition metal oxide heterostructures through careful control of the interface structure.

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 [1]; ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [3];  [1];  [4];  [2]; ORCiD logo [1]
  1. Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)
  2. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source (ALS)
  3. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  4. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
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Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States). Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1360169
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1328494; OSTI ID: 1340822; OSTI ID: 1439207
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA-119122
Journal ID: ISSN 0003-6951
Grant/Contract Number:  
2309.001; AC02-05CH11231; AC02-76SF00515; AC05-76RL01830
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Applied Physics Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 109; Journal Issue: 15; Journal ID: ISSN 0003-6951
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

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Li, Binzhi, Chopdekar, Rajesh V., N'Diaye, Alpha T., Mehta, Apurva, Byers, J. Paige, Browning, Nigel D., Arenholz, Elke, and Takamura, Yayoi. Tuning interfacial exchange interactions via electronic reconstruction in transition-metal oxide heterostructures. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1063/1.4964407.
Li, Binzhi, Chopdekar, Rajesh V., N'Diaye, Alpha T., Mehta, Apurva, Byers, J. Paige, Browning, Nigel D., Arenholz, Elke, & Takamura, Yayoi. Tuning interfacial exchange interactions via electronic reconstruction in transition-metal oxide heterostructures. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4964407
Li, Binzhi, Chopdekar, Rajesh V., N'Diaye, Alpha T., Mehta, Apurva, Byers, J. Paige, Browning, Nigel D., Arenholz, Elke, and Takamura, Yayoi. Mon . "Tuning interfacial exchange interactions via electronic reconstruction in transition-metal oxide heterostructures". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4964407. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1360169.
@article{osti_1360169,
title = {Tuning interfacial exchange interactions via electronic reconstruction in transition-metal oxide heterostructures},
author = {Li, Binzhi and Chopdekar, Rajesh V. and N'Diaye, Alpha T. and Mehta, Apurva and Byers, J. Paige and Browning, Nigel D. and Arenholz, Elke and Takamura, Yayoi},
abstractNote = {The impact of interfacial electronic reconstruction on the magnetic characteristics of La 0.7 Sr 0.3 CoO 3 (LSCO)/La 0.7 Sr 0.3 MnO 3 (LSMO) heterostructures was investigated as a function of layer thickness using a combination of soft x-ray magnetic spectroscopy and bulk magnetometry. We found that the magnetic properties of the LSCO layers are impacted by two competing electronic interactions occurring at the LSCO/substrate and LSMO/LSCO interfaces. For thin LSCO layers ( < 5 nm), the heterostructures exist in a highly coupled state where the chemically distinct layers behave as a single magnetic compound with magnetically active Co 2+ ions. As the LSCO thickness increases, a high coercivity LSCO layer develops which biases a low coercivity layer, which is composed not only of the LSMO layer but also an interfacial LSCO layer. These results suggest an intriguing route to tune the magnetic properties of transition metal oxide heterostructures through careful control of the interface structure.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4964407},
journal = {Applied Physics Letters},
number = 15,
volume = 109,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Oct 10 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Mon Oct 10 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}

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