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Title: Epitaxial growth and antiferromagnetism of Sn-substituted perovskite iridate SrI r 0.8 S n 0.2 O 3

Abstract

5d iridates have shown vast emergent phenomena due to a strong interplay among their lattice, charge, and spin degrees of freedom, because of which the potential in spintronic application of the thin-film form is highly leveraged. Here we have epitaxially stabilized perovskite SrIr0.8Sn0.2O3 on [001] SrTiO3 substrates through pulsed laser deposition and systematically characterized the structural, electronic, and magnetic properties. Physical property measurements unravel an insulating ground state with a weak ferromagnetism in the compressively strained epitaxial film. Here, the octahedral rotation pattern is identified by synchrotron x-ray diffraction, resolving a mix of a+bc and ab+c domains. X-ray magnetic resonant scattering directly demonstrates a G-type antiferromagnetic structure of the magnetic order and the spin canting nature of the weak ferromagnetism.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [3];  [4];  [5];  [6];  [7];  [8];  [8];  [8]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [7];  [1]
  1. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China); Univ. of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (China)
  3. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
  4. Charles Univ., Prague (Czech Republic)
  5. ShanghaiTech Univ., Shanghai (China)
  6. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China)
  7. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China); Univ. of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (China); Songshan Lake Materials Lab., Guangdong (China)
  8. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
National Science Foundation (NSF); University of Tennessee; National Key Research and Development Program of China; European Regional Development Fund (ERDF); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division
OSTI Identifier:
1595261
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357; DMR-1848269; SC0012704; 2018YFA0305700; 11874400; QYZDB-SSW-SLH013; 112111KYSB20170059
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review Materials
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 3; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 2475-9953
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Citation Formats

Yang, Junyi, Hao, Lin, Cui, Qi, Lin, Jiaqi, Horak, Lukas, Liu, Xuerong, Zhang, Lu, Yang, Huaixin, Karapetrova, Jenia, Kim, Jong-Woo, Ryan, Philip J., Dean, Mark P. M., Cheng, Jinguang, and Liu, Jian. Epitaxial growth and antiferromagnetism of Sn-substituted perovskite iridate SrIr0.8Sn0.2O3. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.3.124411.
Yang, Junyi, Hao, Lin, Cui, Qi, Lin, Jiaqi, Horak, Lukas, Liu, Xuerong, Zhang, Lu, Yang, Huaixin, Karapetrova, Jenia, Kim, Jong-Woo, Ryan, Philip J., Dean, Mark P. M., Cheng, Jinguang, & Liu, Jian. Epitaxial growth and antiferromagnetism of Sn-substituted perovskite iridate SrIr0.8Sn0.2O3. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.3.124411
Yang, Junyi, Hao, Lin, Cui, Qi, Lin, Jiaqi, Horak, Lukas, Liu, Xuerong, Zhang, Lu, Yang, Huaixin, Karapetrova, Jenia, Kim, Jong-Woo, Ryan, Philip J., Dean, Mark P. M., Cheng, Jinguang, and Liu, Jian. Tue . "Epitaxial growth and antiferromagnetism of Sn-substituted perovskite iridate SrIr0.8Sn0.2O3". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.3.124411. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1595261.
@article{osti_1595261,
title = {Epitaxial growth and antiferromagnetism of Sn-substituted perovskite iridate SrIr0.8Sn0.2O3},
author = {Yang, Junyi and Hao, Lin and Cui, Qi and Lin, Jiaqi and Horak, Lukas and Liu, Xuerong and Zhang, Lu and Yang, Huaixin and Karapetrova, Jenia and Kim, Jong-Woo and Ryan, Philip J. and Dean, Mark P. M. and Cheng, Jinguang and Liu, Jian},
abstractNote = {5d iridates have shown vast emergent phenomena due to a strong interplay among their lattice, charge, and spin degrees of freedom, because of which the potential in spintronic application of the thin-film form is highly leveraged. Here we have epitaxially stabilized perovskite SrIr0.8Sn0.2O3 on [001] SrTiO3 substrates through pulsed laser deposition and systematically characterized the structural, electronic, and magnetic properties. Physical property measurements unravel an insulating ground state with a weak ferromagnetism in the compressively strained epitaxial film. Here, the octahedral rotation pattern is identified by synchrotron x-ray diffraction, resolving a mix of a+b–c– and a–b+c– domains. X-ray magnetic resonant scattering directly demonstrates a G-type antiferromagnetic structure of the magnetic order and the spin canting nature of the weak ferromagnetism.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.3.124411},
journal = {Physical Review Materials},
number = 12,
volume = 3,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Dec 24 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Tue Dec 24 00:00:00 EST 2019}
}

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