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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 10, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-08440-6
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Magnetic insulators have wide-ranging applications, including microwave devices, permanent magnets and future spintronic devices. However, the record Curie temperature (T-C), which determines the temperature range in which any ferri/ferromagnetic system remains stable, has stood still for over eight decades. Here we report that a highly B-site ordered cubic double-perovskite insulator, Sr3OsO6, has the highest T-C (of similar to 1060 K) among all insulators and oxides; also, this is the highest magnetic ordering temperature in any compound without 3d transition elements. The cubic B-site ordering is confirmed by atomic-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy. The electronic structure calculations elucidate a ferromagnetic insulating state with J(eff) = 3/2 driven by the large spin-orbit coupling of Os6+ 5d(2) orbitals. Moreover, the Sr3OsO6 films are epitaxially grown on SrTiO3 substrates, suggesting that they are compatible with device fabrication processes and thus promising for spintronic applications.
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