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Title: Growth-Induced In-Plane Uniaxial Anisotropy in V 2O 3/Ni Films

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We report on a strain-induced and temperature dependent uniaxial anisotropy in V 2O 3/Ni hybrid thin films, manifested through the interfacial strain and sample microstructure, and its consequences on the angular dependent magnetization reversal. X-ray diffraction and reciprocal space maps identify the in-plane crystalline axes of the V 2O 3; atomic force and scanning electron microscopy reveal oriented rips in the film microstructure. Quasi-static magnetometry and dynamic ferromagnetic resonance measurements identify a uniaxial magnetic easy axis along the rips. Comparison with films grown on sapphire without rips shows a combined contribution from strain and microstructure in the V 2O 3/Ni films. Magnetization reversal characteristics captured by angular-dependent first order reversal curve measurements indicate a strong domain wall pinning along the direction orthogonal to the rips, inducing an angular-dependent change in the reversal mechanism. Lastly, the resultant anisotropy is tunable with temperature and is most pronounced at room temperature, which is beneficial for potential device applications.

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ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2];  [3];  [4];  [4]; ORCiD logo [5];  [6]
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  1. Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States); NIST Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg, MD (United States)
  2. Univ. de los Andes, Bogota (Colombia)
  3. Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble cedex (France)
  4. Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
  5. Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)
  6. Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO (United States)
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Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
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USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1500097
Grant/Contract Number:  
[FG02-87ER45332]
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Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Scientific Reports
Additional Journal Information:
[ Journal Volume: 7; Journal Issue: 1]; Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE

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Gilbert, Dustin A., Ramírez, Juan Gabriel, Saerbeck, T., Trastoy, J., Schuller, Ivan K., Liu, Kai, and de la Venta, J. Growth-Induced In-Plane Uniaxial Anisotropy in V2O3/Ni Films. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-12690-z.
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Gilbert, Dustin A., Ramírez, Juan Gabriel, Saerbeck, T., Trastoy, J., Schuller, Ivan K., Liu, Kai, & de la Venta, J. Growth-Induced In-Plane Uniaxial Anisotropy in V2O3/Ni Films. United States. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-12690-z.
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Gilbert, Dustin A., Ramírez, Juan Gabriel, Saerbeck, T., Trastoy, J., Schuller, Ivan K., Liu, Kai, and de la Venta, J. Wed . "Growth-Induced In-Plane Uniaxial Anisotropy in V2O3/Ni Films". United States. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-12690-z. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1500097.
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@article{osti_1500097,
title = {Growth-Induced In-Plane Uniaxial Anisotropy in V2O3/Ni Films},
author = {Gilbert, Dustin A. and Ramírez, Juan Gabriel and Saerbeck, T. and Trastoy, J. and Schuller, Ivan K. and Liu, Kai and de la Venta, J.},
abstractNote = {We report on a strain-induced and temperature dependent uniaxial anisotropy in V2O3/Ni hybrid thin films, manifested through the interfacial strain and sample microstructure, and its consequences on the angular dependent magnetization reversal. X-ray diffraction and reciprocal space maps identify the in-plane crystalline axes of the V2O3; atomic force and scanning electron microscopy reveal oriented rips in the film microstructure. Quasi-static magnetometry and dynamic ferromagnetic resonance measurements identify a uniaxial magnetic easy axis along the rips. Comparison with films grown on sapphire without rips shows a combined contribution from strain and microstructure in the V2O3/Ni films. Magnetization reversal characteristics captured by angular-dependent first order reversal curve measurements indicate a strong domain wall pinning along the direction orthogonal to the rips, inducing an angular-dependent change in the reversal mechanism. Lastly, the resultant anisotropy is tunable with temperature and is most pronounced at room temperature, which is beneficial for potential device applications.},
doi = {10.1038/s41598-017-12690-z},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
number = [1],
volume = [7],
place = {United States},
year = {2017},
month = {10}
}
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Figure 1 Figure 1: (a) High-angle θ-2θ x-ray diffraction pattern of V2O3 (100 nm)/Ni (10 nm) sample, misaligned by 0.1° to suppress the substrate peaks. The V2O3 (012), (024), and (036) peaks are identified by *, the Ni (111) identified by †, and sapphire (012) and (024) identified by ‡. (b) Reciprocalmore » space map of V2O3 recorded along the long edge of the substrate. The (012) plane is parallel to the surface at Q|| = 0, while the (104) points 48° to the surface normal. (c) Pole figure of the (104) plane showing the epitaxy of V2O3. The (014) lies at 82° with respect to the surface normal. (d) Schematic reconstruction of the real space orientation of the V2O3 crystal planes following from symmetry considerations of the measured planes.« less
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