Thickness dependent magnetic anisotropy of ultrathin LCMO epitaxial thin films

Norbert Marcel Nemes; Mar García-Hernández; Zsolt Szatmári; Titusz Fehér; Ferenc Simon; Cristina Visani; Vanessa Peña; Christian Miller; Javier García-Barriocanal; Flavio Bruno; Zouhair Sefrioui; Carlos Leon; Jacobo Santamaría

doi:10.1109/TMAG.2008.2001523

Thickness dependent magnetic anisotropy of ultrathin LCMO epitaxial thin films

Norbert Marcel Nemes, Mar García-Hernández, Zsolt Szatmári, Titusz Fehér, Ferenc Simon, Cristina Visani, Vanessa Peña, Christian Miller, Javier García-Barriocanal, Flavio Bruno, Zouhair Sefrioui, Carlos Leon, Jacobo Santamaría

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Abstract

The magnetic properties of La_0.7Ca_0.3MnO₃ (LCMO) manganite thin films were studied with magnetometry and ferromagnetic resonance as a function of film thickness. They maintain the colossal magnetoresistance behavior with a pronounced metal-insulator transition around 150-200 K, except for the very thinnest films studied (3 nm). Nevertheless, LCMO films as thin as 3 nm remain ferromagnetic, without a decrease in saturation magnetization, indicating an absence of dead-layers, although below approximately 6 nm the films remain insulating at low temperature. Magnetization hysteresis loops reveal that the magnetic easy axes lie in the plane of the film for thicknesses in the range of 4-15 nm. Ferromagnetic resonance studies confirm that the easy axes are in-plane, and find a biaxial symmetry in-plane with two, perpendicular easy axes. The directions of the easy axes with respect to the crystallographic directions of the cubic SrTiO₃ substrate differ by 45 deg in 4-and 15-nm-thick LCMO films.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2926-2929
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Magnetics
Volume	44
Issue number	11 PART 2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TMAG.2008.2001523
State	Published - Nov 2008
Externally published	Yes

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The work of N. M. Nemes was supported by a “Ramon y Cajal” fellowship funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education. This work was supported in part by SPIN-MAT06024 C01 and C02 and by Marie-Curie-IRG under Grant 024861 and by OTKA PF63954, K68807, and NK60984.

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Epitaxial layers
Magnetic anisotropy
Magnetic resonance
Manganites
Thin films

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Nemes, N. M., García-Hernández, M., Szatmári, Z., Fehér, T., Simon, F., Visani, C., Peña, V., Miller, C., García-Barriocanal, J., Bruno, F., Sefrioui, Z., Leon, C., & Santamaría, J. (2008). Thickness dependent magnetic anisotropy of ultrathin LCMO epitaxial thin films. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 44(11 PART 2), 2926-2929. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMAG.2008.2001523

Nemes, NM, García-Hernández, M, Szatmári, Z, Fehér, T, Simon, F, Visani, C, Peña, V, Miller, C, García-Barriocanal, J, Bruno, F, Sefrioui, Z, Leon, C & Santamaría, J 2008, 'Thickness dependent magnetic anisotropy of ultrathin LCMO epitaxial thin films', IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 44, no. 11 PART 2, pp. 2926-2929. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMAG.2008.2001523

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