Spatially resolved strain-imprinted magnetic states in an artificial multiferroic
- Chopdekar, R. V. Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
- Malik, Vivek Kumar Department of Physics and Fribourg Center for Nanomaterials, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Rodríguez, A. Fraile Departament de Física Fonamental and Institut de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (IN2UB), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Guyader, L. Le Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
- Takamura, Y. Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California, Davis, USA
- Scholl, A. Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA
- Stender, D. Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
- Schneider, C. W. Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
- Bernhard, Christian Department of Physics and Fribourg Center for Nanomaterials, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Nolting, F. Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
- Heyderman, L. J. Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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28.06.2012
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- Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. - 2012, vol. 86, no. 01, p. 014408
English
Artificial multiferroic systems, in which novel properties can emerge from elastic coupling between piezoelectric and magnetostrictive phases, are a promising route to obtain significant room-temperature magnetoelectric coupling at the nanoscale. In this work, we have used element-specific soft x-ray photoemission electron microscopy to spatially resolve the effects of ferroelectric BaTiO₃ on the magnetic properties of ferromagnetic layers of CoFe₂O₄ and NiFe₂O₄. Resulting from the large magnetoelastic anisotropy present in these artificial multiferroic systems, a modification of the orientation and symmetry of the magnetic easy axes of the ferromagnetic film upon changing the underlying domain structure of the ferroelectric has been observed. This opens the possibility to strain-imprint magnetic states in these systems.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
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- Département de Physique
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- English
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- Physics
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- RERO DOC 29744
- DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.014408
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/302475
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