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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 104, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3021112
Keywords
antiferromagnetic materials; canted spin arrangements; crystal orientation; lanthanum compounds; magnetic anisotropy; magnetic epitaxial layers; magnetic structure; multiferroics; pulsed laser deposition; strontium compounds; yttrium compounds
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- MOE ATU program
- National Science Council of Taiwan, ROC [NSC 95-2112-M-009-035-MY3, NSC 95-2112-M-009-038MY3, NSC 95-2112-M-213-005]
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Orthorhombic YMnO3 thin films with (200), (020), and (001) orientations were, respectively, obtained by pulsed laser deposition on SrTiO3(110), LaAlO3(110), and SrTiO3(001) substrates. The results demonstrate that the strain between film and substrate can serve as an alternative in transforming the thermodynamically stable hexagonal YMnO3 into the orthorhombic phase, which previously could be obtained with high-pressure high temperature syntheses and epitaxy-stabilized thin film processes. More importantly, these films allow us, for the first time, to unambiguously disclose the intrinsic magnetic property along different crystallographic orientations. Our results show that, although the antiferromagnetic (AFM) ordering remains the same, there is an additional spin reordering transition which is very much dependent on the crystallographic orientation along which the measuring field was applied and on the in-plane crystallographic alignment of the films. Detailed analyses indicate that the origin of the observed second reordering may be due to some strain-induced canted AFM state instead of the incommensurate lock-in transitions conceived previously.
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