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DS: Fachverband Dünne Schichten

DS 9: Multiferroics I: Junctions and thin films / Magnetoelectric coupling (jointly with MA, DF, KR, TT)

DS 9.5: Talk

Monday, March 26, 2012, 10:45–11:00, EB 301

Preparation and characterization of multiferroic thin films grown with an Oxid-MBE — •Paul Zakalek, Markus Waschk, Alexander Weber, and Thomas Brückel — Jülich Centre for Neutron Science JCNS und Peter Grünberg Institut PGI, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, D-52425 Jülich, Germany

An oxygen-assisted Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) gives the possibility to engine artificial materials on a nanoscale with promising effects. With our machine it is possible to grow complex materials like La_xSr_1−xMnO₃ (LSMO) or La_xBi_1−xMnO₃ (LBMO) with remarkably good crystalline quality.

The materials show a variety of interesting effects. For example the La concentration affects the magnetic and electric properties of this systems. The LSMO and LBMO layers can either be antiferromagnetic, ferromagnetic or multiferroic, depending of the La concentration.

Different LSMO/LBMO systems were grown with oxygen-assisted MBE on a SrTiO₃ (STO) substrate with different La concentrations. We will present the preparation process and the structural in-house characterization of this systems. First results show good structural quality, like surface roughnesses of not more then one unit cell. Additionally magnetic and electric measurements of the samples will be shown.