Regensburg 2010 – wissenschaftliches Programm

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KR: Fachverband Kristallographie

KR 8: Multiferroics I (Joint Session of MA, DF, KR, DS)

KR 8.1: Hauptvortrag

Montag, 22. März 2010, 10:15–10:45, H3

Antiferromagnetic interlayer coupling in La_0.7Sr_0.3MnO₃ / SrRuO₃ superlattices — •Ionela Vrejoiu — Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle, Germany

Perovskite oxides are versatile materials with a broad spectrum of physical properties, such as (anti)ferromagnetism, (anti)ferroelectricity, superconductivity, and multiferroicity. As illustrating examples, La_0.7Sr_0.3MnO₃ (LSMO) and SrRuO₃ (SRO) are both ferromagnetic perovskites with bulk ferromagnetic Curie temperatures of 370 K and 160 K, respectively. LSMO is a 3d transition metal double exchange ferromagnet, whereas SRO is a rare case of a 4d itinerant metallic ferromagnet and, in contrast to LSMO, SRO shows exceptionally strong magneto-crystalline anisotropy. Such differences make the interlayer coupling between LSMO and SRO epitaxial thin films an intriguing case. We report on LSMO / SRO superlattices (SLs) grown by pulsed-laser deposition on vicinal TiO₂-terminated SrTiO₃ (100) (STO) substrates. These SLs exhibit strong antiferromagnetic (AF) interlayer coupling at temperatures below 140 K, where the SRO layers become ferromagnetic. SLs in which an ultrathin nonmagnetic perovskite spacer was grown in between all the LSMO and SRO layers (so that the LSMO and SRO have no mutual interfaces) exhibited ferromagnetic coupling below 140 K. This indicates that the AF coupling occurs only in SLs with direct interfaces between LSMO and SRO. A joint study of structural characterization, SQUID magnetometry as well as first principles calculations was performed, in order to unravel the origin of this strong AF coupling.

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