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Reduction-Induced Magnetic Behavior in LaFeO3-d Thin Films

March 4, 2024
Author(s)
Nathan Arndt, Eitan Hershkovitz, Labdhi Shah, Kristoffer Kjaernes, Chao-Yao Yang, Purnima Balakrishnan, Mohammed Shariff, Shaun Tauro, Daniel Gopman, Brian Kirby, Alexander Grutter, Thomas Tybell, Honggyu Kim, Ryan Need
The effect of oxygen reduction on the magnetic properties of LaFeO3−δ (LFO) thin films was studied to better understand the viability of LFO as a candidate for magnetoionic memory. Differences in the amount of oxygen lost by LFO and its magnetic behavior

First-Order Phase Transition versus Spin-State Quantum-Critical Scenarios in Strain-Tuned Epitaxial Cobaltite Thin Films

February 14, 2024
Author(s)
John Dewey, Vipul Chaturvedi, Tatiana Webb, Prachi Sharma, William Postiglione, P. Quarterman, Purnima Balakrishnan, Brian Kirby, Lucca Figari, Caroline Korostynski, Andrew Jacobson, Turan Birol, Rafael Fernandes, Abhay Pasupathy, Chris Leighton
Pr-containing perovskite cobaltites exhibit unusual valence transitions, coupled to coincident structural, spin-state, and metal-insulator transitions. Heteroepitaxial strain was recently used to control these phenomena in the model (Pr1−yYy )1−xCaxCoO3−δ

Vertical Inhomogeneous Magnetic Order in FeRh Film

December 31, 2022
Author(s)
Sehwan Song, Jiwoong Kim, Jisung Lee, Hyegyeong Kim, Noboru Miyata, Neeraj Kumar, Y. Soh, Jae H. Jang, Chanyong Hwang, Brian Kirby, Sungkyun Park
FeRh films, known as antiferromagnetic material at low temperature, exhibit unexpected ferromagnetic (FM) characteristics, unlike bulk. Detailed temperature-dependent physical properties of FeRh film are examined to elucidate the causes. Temperature

Strain and Charge Contributions to the Magnetoelectric Coupling in Fe 3 O 4 /PMN-PT Artificial Multiferroic Heterostructures

December 30, 2022
Author(s)
Patrick Schoffmann, Anirban Sarkar, Mai H. Hamed, Tanvi Bhatnagar-Schoffmann, Sabine Putter, Brian Kirby, Alexander Grutter, Juri Barthel, Emmanuel Kentzinger, Annika Stellhorn, Andrei Gloskovskii, Martina Muller, Thomas Bruckel
The quest to realize new kinds of data storage devices has motivated recent studies in the field of magnetoelectric heterostructures. One of the most commonly investigated systems is Fe 3O 4/PMN-PT, however, the interplay between different coupling

Room-temperature valence transition in a strain-tuned perovskite oxide

December 15, 2022
Author(s)
Vipul Chaturvedi, Supriya Ghosh, Dominique Gautreau, William M. Postiglione, John E. Dewey, Patrick Quarterman, Purnima P. Balakrishnan, Brian Kirby, Hua Zhou, Huikui Cheng, Amanda Huon, Timothy Charlton, Michael R. Fitzsimmons, Caroline Korostynski, Andrew Jacobson, Lucca Figari, Javier Garcia Barriocanal, T. Birol, K. A. Mkhoyan, Chris Leighton
Cobalt oxides have long been understood to display intriguing phenomena known as spin-state crossovers, where the cobalt ion spin changes vs. temperature, pressure, etc. A very different situation was recently uncovered in praseodymium-containing cobalt

Magnetotransport and magnetic textures in Ho/FeCoGd/b-W multilayers

January 12, 2022
Author(s)
Ramesh Budhani, Vinay Sharma, Ezana Negusse, Jacob Casey, Arjun Pathak, Jerzy Sadowski, Brian Kirby
The enhancement of interfacial Dzyaloshinskii – Moriya Interaction (DMI) in magnetic multilayers results in the stabilization of topological spin textures like chiral domain walls and skyrmions. Here we report on the evaluation of interface-driven magnetic

Chiral Spin Bobbers in Exchange-Coupled Hard-Soft Magnetic Bilayers

November 17, 2021
Author(s)
X. H. Zhang, T. R. Gao, L. Fang, S. Fackler, Julie Borchers, Brian Kirby, Brian B. Maranville, S. E. Lofland, A. T. N'Diaye, E. Arenholz, A. Ullah, J. Cui, R. Skomski, Ichiro Takeuchi
The spin structure of exchange-coupled MnBi:Co-Fe bilayers is investigated by X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD), polarized neutron reflectometry (PNR), and micromagnetic simu-lations. The purpose of the present research is two-fold. First, the

Modifying Critical Exponents of Magnetic Phase Transitions via Nanoscale Materials Design

September 28, 2021
Author(s)
Lorenzo Fallarino, Eva Lopez Rojo, Mikel Quintana, Juan Sebastian Salcedo Gallo, Brian Kirby, Andreas Berger
We demonstrate a nanoscale materials design path that allows us to bypass universality in thin ferromagnetic films and enables us to tune the critical exponents of ferromagnetic phase transitions in a very wide parameter range, while at the same time

Electrically Driven Exchange Bias via Solid State Magneto-Ionics

August 4, 2021
Author(s)
Peyton Murray, Christopher Jensen, Alberto Quintana, Junwei Zhang, Xixiang Zhang, Alexander Grutter, Brian Kirby, Kai Liu
Electrically induced ionic motion offers a new way to realize voltage-controlled magnetism, opening the door to a new generation of logic, sensor, and data storage technologies. Here, we demonstrate an effective approach to magneto-ionically and

Graded Magnetic Materials

May 17, 2021
Author(s)
Lorenzo Fallarino, Brian Kirby, Eric E. Fullerton
Graded magnetic materials represent a promising new avenue in modern material science from both fundamental and application points of view. Over the course of the last few years, remarkable results have been obtained in (epitaxial) heterostructures based

Strong Ferromagnetism Achieved via Breathing Lattices in Atomically Thin Cobaltites

January 27, 2021
Author(s)
Sisi Li, Qinghua Zhang, Shan Lin, Xiahan Sang, Ryan F. Need, Manuel A. Roldan, Wenjun Cui, Zhiyi Hu, Qiao Jin, Shuang Chen, Jiali Zhao, Jia-Ou Wang, Jiesu Wang, Meng He, Chen Ge, Can Wang, Hui-Bin Lu, Zhenping Wu, Haizhong Guo, Xin Tong, Tao Zhu, Brian Kirby, Lin Gu, Kui-juan Jin, Er-Jia Guo
Low-dimensional quantum materials that retain strong ferromagnetism down to monolayer thickness hold great potential for spintronic applications. However, ferromagnetism in the transition metal oxides decays severely when the thickness is scaled to the

Observation of Anti-Damping Spin-Orbit Torques Generated by In-Plane and Out-of-Plane Spin Polarizations in MnPd 3

December 16, 2020
Author(s)
Mahendra DC, Ding-Fu Shao, Vincent D.-H. Hou, Patrick Quarterman, Ali Habiboglu, Brooks Venuti, Masashi Miura, Brian Kirby, Arturas Vailionis, Chong Bi, Xiang Li, Fen Xue, Yen-Lin Huang, Yong Deng, Shy-Jay Lin, Wilman Tsai, Serena Eley, Weigang Wang, Julie A. Borchers, Evgeny Y. Tsymbal, Shan X. Wang
High spin-orbit torques (SOTs) generated by topological materials and heavy metals interfaced with a ferromagnetic layer show promise for next generation magnetic memory and logic devices. SOTs generated from the in-plane spin polarization along y-axis

Differentiation between Strain and Charge Mediated Magnetoelectric Coupling in La 0.7 Sr 0.3 MnO 3 /Pb(Mg 1/3 Nb 2/3) d0.7^Ti 0.3 O 3 (001)

June 17, 2020
Author(s)
T. Bhatnagar-Schoffmann, Emmanuel Kentzinger, A. Sarkar, P. Schoffmann, Q. Lan, L. Jin, A. Kovacs, Alexander Grutter, Brian Kirby, R. Beerwerth, M. Waschk, Annika Stellhorn, U. Rucker, R. E. Dunin-Borkowski, Th. Bruckel
Magnetoelectric (ME) coupling in La 0.7Sr 0.3MnO 3/Pb(Mg 1/3Nb 2/3)d0.7^Ti 0.3O 3 (LSMO/PMN-PT (001)) has been probed in the past years to identify the underlying mechanism behind it. PMN-PT, which is well known for its excellent piezoelectric properties

Correlating Magnetic Structure and Magnetotransport in Semimetal Thin Films of Eu 1-x Sm x TiO 3

May 15, 2020
Author(s)
Zach Porter, Ryan F. Need, Kaveh Ahadi, Yang Zhao, Zhijun Xu, Brian Kirby, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Susanne Stemmer, Stephen D. Wilson
We report on the evolution of the average and depth-dependent magnetic order in thin film samples of biaxially stressed and electron-doped EuTiO 3 for samples across a doping range 20 cm −3. Under an applied in-plane magnetic field, the G-type

Magnetic Properties and Electronic Origin of the Interface between Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors with Orthogonal Magnetic Anisotropy

May 15, 2020
Author(s)
Ryan F. Need, Seul-Ki Bac, Xinyu Liu, Sanghoon Lee, Brian Kirby, Margaret Dobrowolska, Jacek Kossut, Jacek K. Furdyna
Controlling changes in magnetic anisotropy across epitaxial film interfaces is an important prerequisite for many spintronic devices. For the canonical dilute magnetic semiconductor GaMnAs, magnetic anisotropy is highly tunable through strain and doping

Impact of Growth Kinetics on the Interface Morphology and Magnetization in La 1/3 Sr 2/3 FeO 3 /La 2/3 Sr 1/3 MnO 3 Heterostructures

April 17, 2020
Author(s)
M. Waschk, A. Sarkar, J. Barthel, J. Voigt, S. Schroder, P. Zakalek, M. Schmitz, Brian Kirby, S. Putter, J. Schubert, T. Bruckel
The ability to create atomically perfect, epitaxial heterostructures of correlated complex perovskite oxides using state-of-art thin film deposition techniques has generated new physical phenomena at engineered interfaces. Here we report on the impact of

Correlation-Driven Eightfold Magnetic Anisotropy in a Two-Dimensional Oxide Monolayer

April 10, 2020
Author(s)
Zhangzhang Cui, Alexander Grutter, Hua Zhou, Hui Cao, Yongqi Dong, Dustin A. Gilbert, Jingyuan Wang, Yi-Sheng Liu, Jiaji Ma, Zhenpeng Hu, Jinghua Guo, Jing Xia, Brian Kirby, Padraic Shafer, Elke Arenholz, Hanghui Chen, Xiaofang Zhai, Yalin Lu
Engineering magnetic anisotropy (MA) in two-dimensional (2D) ferromagnetic materials has enormous scientific and technological implications. The uniaxial anisotropy universally exhibited by 2D ferromagnetic materials has only two stable spin directions

Strain-Induced Majority Carrier Inversion in Ferromagnetic Epitaxial LaCoO^d3-d Thin Films

March 4, 2020
Author(s)
Vipul Chaturvedi, Jeff Walter, Arpita Paul, Alexander Grutter, Brian Kirby, Jong Seok Jeong, Hua Zhou, Zhan Zhang, Biqiong Yu, Martin Greven, K. Andre Mkhoyan, Turan Birol, Chris Leighton
Tensile-strained LaCoO 3-δ thin films are ferromagnetic, in sharp contrast to the zero-spin bulk, although no clear consensus has emerged as to the origin of this phenomenon. While magnetism has been heavily studied, relatively little attention has been