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Title: Escalated Phase Separation Driven Enhanced Magnetoresistance in Manganite/Iridate Epitaxial Heterostructures

Abstract

Phase separation in manganites leads to unique magnetic and electronic properties. 50% Ca-doped LaMnO3 (LCMO), at the boundary of ferromagnetic (FM) and antiferromagnetic (AFM) states in La1-xCaxMnO3 (0 ≤ x ≤ 1), is an ideal system to study phase separation behavior. The investigation reveals the effect of a 5d-metal perovskite SrIrO3 (SIO) on the phase separation, magnetic, and magnetoresistance (MR) properties of LCMO. Single-layer and bilayer LCMO films, both appear purely ferromagnetic along the in-plane (IP) magnetic field direction, but show the tendency of temperature-dependent ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic or charge-ordered (CO) phase separation with the out-of-plane (OOP) applied field. The MR, and colossal magnetoresistance (CMR), observed in LCMO/SIO bilayers are two orders and an order of magnitude (in %) larger, respectively than that in the single-layer film. The coexistence of FM and AFM/CO phases is responsible for the CMR and MR enhancement in the LCMO/SIO bilayer, pointing toward the importance of the phase separation and competition of both the individual materials in enhancing their magnetic and electronic properties.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2];  [2]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2];  [2]; ORCiD logo [3]
  1. State Univ. of New York (SUNY), Buffalo, NY (United States); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States). Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT)
  2. Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States). Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT)
  3. State Univ. of New York (SUNY), Buffalo, NY (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States). Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division (MSE); National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
OSTI Identifier:
2217517
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-23-32756
Journal ID: ISSN 2751-1200
Grant/Contract Number:  
89233218CNA000001; ECCS-1902623
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Advanced Physics Research
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 3; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2751-1200
Publisher:
Wiley
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; colossal magnetoresistance (CMR); heterostructures; manganite; phase separation; SrIrO3

Citation Formats

Roy, Pinku, Zhang, Di, Kunwar, Sundar, Cucciniello, Nicholas, Mazza, Alessandro R., Chen, Aiping, and Jia, Quanxi. Escalated Phase Separation Driven Enhanced Magnetoresistance in Manganite/Iridate Epitaxial Heterostructures. United States: N. p., 2023. Web. doi:10.1002/apxr.202300087.
Roy, Pinku, Zhang, Di, Kunwar, Sundar, Cucciniello, Nicholas, Mazza, Alessandro R., Chen, Aiping, & Jia, Quanxi. Escalated Phase Separation Driven Enhanced Magnetoresistance in Manganite/Iridate Epitaxial Heterostructures. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/apxr.202300087
Roy, Pinku, Zhang, Di, Kunwar, Sundar, Cucciniello, Nicholas, Mazza, Alessandro R., Chen, Aiping, and Jia, Quanxi. Wed . "Escalated Phase Separation Driven Enhanced Magnetoresistance in Manganite/Iridate Epitaxial Heterostructures". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/apxr.202300087. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/2217517.
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title = {Escalated Phase Separation Driven Enhanced Magnetoresistance in Manganite/Iridate Epitaxial Heterostructures},
author = {Roy, Pinku and Zhang, Di and Kunwar, Sundar and Cucciniello, Nicholas and Mazza, Alessandro R. and Chen, Aiping and Jia, Quanxi},
abstractNote = {Phase separation in manganites leads to unique magnetic and electronic properties. 50% Ca-doped LaMnO3 (LCMO), at the boundary of ferromagnetic (FM) and antiferromagnetic (AFM) states in La1-xCaxMnO3 (0 ≤ x ≤ 1), is an ideal system to study phase separation behavior. The investigation reveals the effect of a 5d-metal perovskite SrIrO3 (SIO) on the phase separation, magnetic, and magnetoresistance (MR) properties of LCMO. Single-layer and bilayer LCMO films, both appear purely ferromagnetic along the in-plane (IP) magnetic field direction, but show the tendency of temperature-dependent ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic or charge-ordered (CO) phase separation with the out-of-plane (OOP) applied field. The MR, and colossal magnetoresistance (CMR), observed in LCMO/SIO bilayers are two orders and an order of magnitude (in %) larger, respectively than that in the single-layer film. The coexistence of FM and AFM/CO phases is responsible for the CMR and MR enhancement in the LCMO/SIO bilayer, pointing toward the importance of the phase separation and competition of both the individual materials in enhancing their magnetic and electronic properties.},
doi = {10.1002/apxr.202300087},
journal = {Advanced Physics Research},
number = 1,
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place = {United States},
year = {Wed Oct 25 00:00:00 EDT 2023},
month = {Wed Oct 25 00:00:00 EDT 2023}
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