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KFM: Fachverband Kristalline Festkörper und deren Mikrostruktur
KFM 15: Multiferroic Oxide Thin Films and Heterostructures I (joint session KFM/TT/MA)
KFM 15.5: Talk
Wednesday, March 14, 2018, 10:45–11:00, EMH 225
Complexity in the structural and magnetic properties of almost multiferroic EuTiO3 thin films — Zurab Guguchia1, Zaher Salman2, •Hugo Keller3, Krystian Roleder4, Jürgen Köhler5, and Annette Bussmann-Holder5 — 1Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA — 2Laboratory for Muon Spin Spectroscopy, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland — 3Physik-Institut der Universität Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland — 4Institute of Physics, University of Silesia, ul. Uniwersytecka 4, PL-40-007 Katowice, Poland — 5Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Heisenbergstrasse 1, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
In a number of recent publications hidden magnetic properties at high temperatures have been reported for EuTiO3 (ETO), which orders antiferromagnetically below TN=5.7K. In addition, structural phase transitions have been discovered which correlate with the magnetic responses and can be tuned by a magnetic field. In order to identify the magnetic properties of ETO at temperatures well above TN, low-energy muon-spin rotation (μSR) experiments have been performed on thin films of ETO which exhibit all properties observed in bulk materials and are thus well suited to conclude about the magnetic order of the bulk. The μSR data reveal anomalies at 282 and 200 K related to the structural phase transitions in accordance with birefringence results. In addition, a transition to some kind of magnetic order below 100 K was observed as previously indirectly deduced from conductivity and dielectric constant measurements.