Berlin 2012 – scientific programme

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KR: Fachgruppe Kristallographie

KR 5: Poster I – including Multiferroics (MA with DF, DS, KR, TT)

KR 5.29: Poster

Tuesday, March 27, 2012, 12:15–15:15, Poster A

Ultrafast Spin-Lattice Coupling in Transition Metal Oxides — •Lena Maerten, André Bojahr, Marc Herzog, Daniel Schick, and Matias Bargheer — Insitut für Physik und Astronomie, Universität Potsdam, Germany

Understanding the interplay of the electronic, lattice and spin degrees of freedom in solids is essential for devising future nanoelectronic applications. Nanostructured transition metal oxides provide an ideal test ground for studying the interaction of the contributing subsystems on an ultrafast time scale.

We use femtosecond optical and infrared pump probe spectroscopy and time resolved x-ray diffraction techniques to investigate the electronic and lattice dynamics in SrRuO₃/SrTiO₃ and (LaSr)MnO₃/SrTiO₃ superlattices. Sub-picosecond buildup of magnetostrictive stress has been found in a SrRuO₃/SrTiO₃ nanolayer [1]. We show additional temperature- and fluence-dependent reflectivity data revealing further insight into the demagnetization process and discuss the coupling of the magnetic and structural degrees of freedom for the different materials by means of x-ray diffraction results.

[1]C. v. Korff Schmising et al., PRB 78, 060404 (2008)