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Ultrathin Interfacial Layer with Suppressed Room Temperature Magnetization in Magnesium Aluminum Ferrite Thin Films

September 24, 2019
Author(s)
Jacob J. Wisser, Satoru Emori, Lauren Riddiford, Aaron Altman, Peng Li, Krishnamurthy Mahalingam, Brittany T. Urwin, Brandon M. Howe, Michael R. Page, Alexander Grutter, Brian Kirby, Yuri Suzuki
Low-damping magnetic oxide thin films with small thicknesses are essential for efficient insulator spintronic devices, particularly those driven by spin torques effects. Here, we investigate depth-resolved compositional and magnetic properties of epitaxial

Effect of Oxygen Stoichiometry on the Magnetization Profiles and Negative Magnetization in LSMO Thin Films

September 14, 2019
Author(s)
Robbyn Trappen, Alexander Grutter, Chih-Yeh Huang, Aubrey Penn, Navid Mottaghi, Saeed Yousefi, Allison Haertter, Shalini Kumari, James LeBeau, Brian Kirby, Mikel B. Holcomb
The depth dependent magnetization in thin film oxygen stoichiometric and oxygen deficient La 0.7Sr 0.3MnO 3 is investigated by using polarized neutron reflectivity. The stoichiometric sample shows enhanced interfacial magnetization relative to the rest of

Nanoscale Ferroelastic Twins Formed in Strained LaCoO 3 Films

March 29, 2019
Author(s)
Er-Jia Guo, Ryan Desautels, David Keavney, Manuel A. Roldan, Brian Kirby, Dongkyu Lee, Zhaoliang Liao, Timothy Charlton, Andreas Herklotz, T. Zac Ward, Michael R. Fitzsimmons, Ho Nyung Lee
The formation of twinning domains has been established as a major mechanism to accommodate epitaxial strain in rhombohedral ferroelastic oxide thin films. The elastic energy can be released at the expense of high interfacial energy at the domain boundaries

Exploring Interfacial Exchange Coupling and Sublattice Effect in Heavy Metal/Ferrimagnetic Insulator Heterostructures using Hall Measurements, X-Ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism, and Neutron Reflectometry

March 4, 2019
Author(s)
Qiming Shao, Alexander Grutter, Yawen Liu, Guoqiang Yu, Chao-Yao Yang, Dustin A. Gilbert, Elke Arenholz, Padraic Shafer, Xiaoyu Chi, Chi Tang, Mohammed Aldosary, Aryan Navabi, Qing Lin He, Brian Kirby, Jing Shi, Kang L. Wang
Ferrimagnetic insulators (FMIs), such as rare-earth iron garnets, are of considerable interest for low-power spintronics due to low Gilbert damping and the absence of free charge carriers. FMIs are also promising candidate materials for high-frequency

Phonon Localization in Heat Conduction

December 21, 2018
Author(s)
M. N. Luckyanova, J. Mendoza, H. Lu, B. Song, S. Huang, J. Zhou, M. Li., Y. Dong, H. Zhou, J. Garlow, L. Wu, Brian Kirby, Alexander Grutter, Alex A. Puretzky, Y. Zhu, M. S. Dresselhaus, A. Gossard, G. Chen
We report localization-like behavior in phonon heat conduction observed both in measurement of the thermal conductivities of GaAs/AlAs superlattice (SL) thin films with interfacial disorder caused by ErAs nanodots randomly distributed at the interfaces

Pulsed Laser Deposition Films from a Ba 2 FeMoO 6 Target onto SrTiO 3 [001]: Chemical and Magnetic Inhomogeneity

October 22, 2018
Author(s)
Daniel M. Pajerowski, Lisa J. Krayer, Brian Kirby, Brian B. Maranville, Julie Borchers, Kyeong-Won Kim, David P. Norton
We have used a combination of x-ray diffraction, atomic force microscopy, x-ray and neutron reflectivity, and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy to investigate inhomogeneities within pulsed laser deposition, Ba 2FeMoO 6 films on SrTiO 3[001]. These results

Long-Range Electric Field Control of Permalloy Layers in Strain-Coupled Composite Multiferroics

October 18, 2018
Author(s)
Michelle E. Jamer, Colin R. Rementer, Anthony Barra, Alexander Grutter, Kevin Fitzell, Daniel Gopman, Julie Borchers, Gregory P. Carman, Brian Kirby, Jane P. Chang
Artificial composite multiferroic materials can be created by interfacing magnetostrictive and piezoelectric materials, allowing for electric field control of magnetic properties. For multilayer device applications, addition of weakly magnetostrictive

Ionic Tuning of Cobaltites at the Nanoscale

October 3, 2018
Author(s)
Dustin Allen Gilbert, Alexander J Grutter, Peyton D. Murray, Rajesh V. Chopdekar, Alexander M. Kane, Aleksey L. Ionin, Michael S. Lee, Steven R. Spurgeon, Brian J Kirby, Brian B. Maranville, Alpha T. N'Diaye, Apurva Mehta, Elke Arenholz, Kai Liu, Yayoi Takamura, Julie A. Borchers

Strain-Induced Competition between Ferromagnetism and Emergent Antiferromagnetism in (Eu,Sr)MnO 3

September 4, 2018
Author(s)
Alexander J Grutter, Steven M. Disseler, E. J. Moon, Dustin Allen Gilbert, E. Arenholz, A. Suter, T. Prokscha, Z. Salman, Brian J Kirby, S. J. May
We demonstrate emergent antiferromagnetic interactions is strained thin films of the mixed valence manganite (Eu,SR)MnO 3. Although the composition studied, Eu 0.7Sr 0.3MnO 3, will nominally yield a ferromagnetic phase in bulk, we observe significant

Topological Transitions Induced by Antiferromagnetism in a Thin-Film Topological Insulator

August 29, 2018
Author(s)
Qing Lin He, Gen Yin, Luyan Yu, Alexander Grutter, Lei Pan, Chui-Zhen Chen, Xiaoyu Che, Guoqiang Yu, Bin Zhang, Qiming Shao, Alexander L. Stern, Brian Casas, Jing Xia, Xiaodong Han, Brian Kirby, Roger K. Lake, K. T. Law, Kang L. Wang
Ferromagnetism in topological insulators (TIs) opens a topologically non-trivial exchange band gap, providing an exciting platform for manipulating the topological order through external magnetic field. Here, we experimentally show that the surface of an

Nanoscale Magnetic Localization in Exchange Strength Modulated Ferromagnets

August 3, 2018
Author(s)
Brian J Kirby, L. Fallarino, P. Riego, Brian B. Maranville, Casey W. Miller, A. Berger
Compositional grading can be used to continuously vary the "local" Curie temperature across the thickness of a ferromagnetic alloy thin film, allowing for a continuously moveable vertical boundary between strongly and weakly magnetized regions. The utility