| DATE: |
2014-11-10 13:30 - 14:30 |
| PLACE: |
meeting room on the 2nd floor of PF kenkyu-tou |
| TITLE: |
IMSS Seminar (14-09) The search for novel magnetic phases in strained SrCoO3 thin films |
| CONTACT: |
Prof. Kenta Amemiya (5656) |
| SPEAKER: |
Dr. Sara Callori (Bragg Institute, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation) |
| LANGUAGE: |
English |
| ABSTRACT: |
The broad range of many transition metal oxide properties can be tuned by external parameters such as strain, oxygen content, or applied electric or magnetic fields and SrCoO3 is a particularly interesting system for investigation. SrCoO3-x has long been studied due to its propensity to form structurally and magnetically distinct oxygen-vacancy ordered structures. In the fully (or nearly so) oxygenated case, bulk SrCoO3 is cubic and ferromagnetic, a behaviour which has also been observed in moderately strained thin films. Recent theoretical work has predicted, however, a transition to an antiferromagnetic state under large compressive or tensile strain. This would also be accompanied by a metal-insulator transition as well as the emergence of a ferroelectric state. We have recently prepared SrCoO3 thin films on several substrates, SrTiO3, DyScO3, and LaAlO3, in order to apply a range of epitaxial strains. Using magnetometry and neutron diffraction techniques, we have demonstrated a transition from a ferromagnetic phase as grown on SrTiO3 (1.8% tensile strain) to an antiferromagnetic phase on DyScO3 (2.7% tensile strain). These results confirm the predicted strong coupling between structure (via strain) and magnetism in SrCoO3 and represent the first step in obtaining new functionalities of this system. |
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