Switchable orbital polarization and magnetization in strained films
Abstract
Strain engineering of epitaxial heterostructures offers opportunities to control the orbital degree of freedom by lifting the degeneracy of eg states. In this work, we show that the orbital occupation in LaCoO3 (LCO) films can be switched between two degenerate eg bands with epitaxial strain. The orbital polarization of nearly -100% (or 100%) is controlled by depleting occupation of the dx2-y2 (or d(3z2-r2) orbital entirely in LCO for large compressive (or moderate tensile) strain. The change of electronic configuration associated with the spin-state transition modulates the magnetization of strained LCO films. Under compressive strain, LCO films exhibit a small magnetization without long-range ferromagnetic ordering. With tensile-strain increases, the magnetization of LCO films increases and reaches the maximum value when the bonding angle (Co-O-Co) is close to 180° and the in-plane bond length (Co-O) is unstretched. Our results highlight the role of octahedral distortion and spin-state crossover in tailoring the magnetic properties of cobaltite thin films, indicating an attractive route to deliberately control the orbital polarization that can be tuned to maximize the functionality of oxide heterostructures.
- Authors:
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- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China); Univ. of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (China)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Martin Luther Univ. of Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), Halle (Germany)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1505601
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1490921; OSTI ID: 1607130
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357; AC02-06CH1135; AC05-00OR22725
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Materials
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 3; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2475-9953
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; X-ray scattering; Orbital polarization; ferroelastic materials; ferromagnetism; strain engineering
Citation Formats
Guo, Er-Jia, Desautels, Ryan D., Keavney, David, Herklotz, Andreas, Ward, T. Zac, Fitzsimmons, Michael R., and Lee, Ho Nyung. Switchable orbital polarization and magnetization in strained LaCoO3 films. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.3.014407.
Guo, Er-Jia, Desautels, Ryan D., Keavney, David, Herklotz, Andreas, Ward, T. Zac, Fitzsimmons, Michael R., & Lee, Ho Nyung. Switchable orbital polarization and magnetization in strained LaCoO3 films. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.3.014407
Guo, Er-Jia, Desautels, Ryan D., Keavney, David, Herklotz, Andreas, Ward, T. Zac, Fitzsimmons, Michael R., and Lee, Ho Nyung. Tue .
"Switchable orbital polarization and magnetization in strained LaCoO3 films". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.3.014407. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1505601.
@article{osti_1505601,
title = {Switchable orbital polarization and magnetization in strained LaCoO3 films},
author = {Guo, Er-Jia and Desautels, Ryan D. and Keavney, David and Herklotz, Andreas and Ward, T. Zac and Fitzsimmons, Michael R. and Lee, Ho Nyung},
abstractNote = {Strain engineering of epitaxial heterostructures offers opportunities to control the orbital degree of freedom by lifting the degeneracy of eg states. In this work, we show that the orbital occupation in LaCoO3 (LCO) films can be switched between two degenerate eg bands with epitaxial strain. The orbital polarization of nearly -100% (or 100%) is controlled by depleting occupation of the dx2-y2 (or d(3z2-r2) orbital entirely in LCO for large compressive (or moderate tensile) strain. The change of electronic configuration associated with the spin-state transition modulates the magnetization of strained LCO films. Under compressive strain, LCO films exhibit a small magnetization without long-range ferromagnetic ordering. With tensile-strain increases, the magnetization of LCO films increases and reaches the maximum value when the bonding angle (Co-O-Co) is close to 180° and the in-plane bond length (Co-O) is unstretched. Our results highlight the role of octahedral distortion and spin-state crossover in tailoring the magnetic properties of cobaltite thin films, indicating an attractive route to deliberately control the orbital polarization that can be tuned to maximize the functionality of oxide heterostructures.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.3.014407},
journal = {Physical Review Materials},
number = 1,
volume = 3,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jan 15 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Tue Jan 15 00:00:00 EST 2019}
}
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