Full electroresistance modulation in a mixed-phase metallic alloy

Liu, Zhiqi; Li, L.; Gai, Zheng; Clarkson, J. D.; Hsu, S. L.; Wong, Anthony T.; Fan, L. S.; Lin, Ming -Wei; Rouleau, Christopher M.; Ward, Thomas Zac; Lee, Ho Nyung; Sefat, Athena Safa; Christen, Hans M.; Ramesh, Ramamoorthy

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.097203

Title: Full electroresistance modulation in a mixed-phase metallic alloy

Journal Article · Thu Mar 03 00:00:00 EST 2016 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.097203· OSTI ID:1266024

Liu, Zhiqi ^[1]; Li, L. ^[2]; Gai, Zheng ^[2]; Clarkson, J. D. ^[3]; Hsu, S. L. ^[3]; Wong, Anthony T. ^[4]; Fan, L. S. ^[2]; Lin, Ming -Wei ^[2]; Rouleau, Christopher M. ^[2]; Ward, Thomas Zac ^[2]; Lee, Ho Nyung ^[2]; Sefat, Athena Safa ^[2]; Christen, Hans M. ^[2]; Ramesh, Ramamoorthy ^[5]

Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

We report a giant, ~22%, electroresistance modulation for a metallic alloy above room temperature. It is achieved by a small electric field of 2 kV/cm via piezoelectric strain-mediated magnetoelectric coupling and the resulting magnetic phase transition in epitaxial FeRh/BaTiO3 heterostructures. This work presents detailed experimental evidence for an isothermal magnetic phase transition driven by tetragonality modulation in FeRh thin films, which is in contrast to the large volume expansion in the conventional temperature-driven magnetic phase transition in FeRh. Furthermore, all the experimental results in this work illustrate FeRh as a mixed-phase model system well similar to phase-separated colossal magnetoresistance systems with phase instability therein.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725; SC0002136

OSTI ID:: 1266024

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1240216

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 116, Issue 9; ISSN 0031-9007

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