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Title: Thermally assisted interlayer magnetic coupling through Ba{sub 0.05}Sr{sub 0.95}TiO{sub 3} barriers

Abstract

We report on the interlayer exchange coupling across insulating barriers observed on Ni{sub 80}Fe{sub 20}/Ba{sub 0.05}Sr{sub 0.95}TiO{sub 3}/La{sub 0.66}Sr{sub 0.33}MnO{sub 3} (Py/BST{sub 0.05}/LSMO) trilayers. The coupling mechanism has been analyzed in terms of the barrier thickness, samples' substrate, and temperature. We examined the effect of MgO (MGO) and SrTiO{sub 3} (STO) (001) single-crystalline substrates on the magnetic coupling and also on the magnetic anisotropies of the samples in order to get a deeper understanding of the magnetism of the structures. We measured a weak coupling mediated by spin-dependent tunneling phenomena whose sign and strength depend on barrier thickness and substrate. An antiferromagnetic (AF) exchange prevails for most of the samples and smoothly increases with the barrier thicknesses as a consequence of the screening effects of the BST{sub 0.05}. The coupling monotonically increases with temperature in all the samples and this behavior is attributed to thermally assisted mechanisms. The magnetic anisotropy of both magnetic components has a cubic symmetry that in the case of permalloy is added to a small uniaxial component.

Authors:
;  [1]; ;  [2];  [2]
  1. Centro Atómico Constituyentes, San Martín, Buenos Aires 1650 (Argentina)
  2. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires C1425FQB (Argentina)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
22594350
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Applied Physics Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 109; Journal Issue: 6; Other Information: (c) 2016 Author(s); Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0003-6951
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; ANISOTROPY; ANTIFERROMAGNETISM; BARIUM COMPOUNDS; COUPLING; MAGNESIUM OXIDES; MONOCRYSTALS; PERMALLOY; SCREENING; SPIN; STRONTIUM TITANATES; SUBSTRATES; SYMMETRY; THICKNESS; TUNNEL EFFECT

Citation Formats

Carreira, Santiago J., Steren, Laura B., Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires C1425FQB, Avilés Félix, Luis, Alejandro, Gabriela, Centro Atómico Bariloche, Bariloche, Rio Negro 8400, Sirena, Martín, Centro Atómico Bariloche, Bariloche, Rio Negro 8400, and Instituto Balseiro-CNEA & Univ. Nac. de Cuyo, Bariloche, Rio Negro 8400. Thermally assisted interlayer magnetic coupling through Ba{sub 0.05}Sr{sub 0.95}TiO{sub 3} barriers. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1063/1.4960639.
Carreira, Santiago J., Steren, Laura B., Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires C1425FQB, Avilés Félix, Luis, Alejandro, Gabriela, Centro Atómico Bariloche, Bariloche, Rio Negro 8400, Sirena, Martín, Centro Atómico Bariloche, Bariloche, Rio Negro 8400, & Instituto Balseiro-CNEA & Univ. Nac. de Cuyo, Bariloche, Rio Negro 8400. Thermally assisted interlayer magnetic coupling through Ba{sub 0.05}Sr{sub 0.95}TiO{sub 3} barriers. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4960639
Carreira, Santiago J., Steren, Laura B., Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires C1425FQB, Avilés Félix, Luis, Alejandro, Gabriela, Centro Atómico Bariloche, Bariloche, Rio Negro 8400, Sirena, Martín, Centro Atómico Bariloche, Bariloche, Rio Negro 8400, and Instituto Balseiro-CNEA & Univ. Nac. de Cuyo, Bariloche, Rio Negro 8400. 2016. "Thermally assisted interlayer magnetic coupling through Ba{sub 0.05}Sr{sub 0.95}TiO{sub 3} barriers". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4960639.
@article{osti_22594350,
title = {Thermally assisted interlayer magnetic coupling through Ba{sub 0.05}Sr{sub 0.95}TiO{sub 3} barriers},
author = {Carreira, Santiago J. and Steren, Laura B. and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires C1425FQB and Avilés Félix, Luis and Alejandro, Gabriela and Centro Atómico Bariloche, Bariloche, Rio Negro 8400 and Sirena, Martín and Centro Atómico Bariloche, Bariloche, Rio Negro 8400 and Instituto Balseiro-CNEA & Univ. Nac. de Cuyo, Bariloche, Rio Negro 8400},
abstractNote = {We report on the interlayer exchange coupling across insulating barriers observed on Ni{sub 80}Fe{sub 20}/Ba{sub 0.05}Sr{sub 0.95}TiO{sub 3}/La{sub 0.66}Sr{sub 0.33}MnO{sub 3} (Py/BST{sub 0.05}/LSMO) trilayers. The coupling mechanism has been analyzed in terms of the barrier thickness, samples' substrate, and temperature. We examined the effect of MgO (MGO) and SrTiO{sub 3} (STO) (001) single-crystalline substrates on the magnetic coupling and also on the magnetic anisotropies of the samples in order to get a deeper understanding of the magnetism of the structures. We measured a weak coupling mediated by spin-dependent tunneling phenomena whose sign and strength depend on barrier thickness and substrate. An antiferromagnetic (AF) exchange prevails for most of the samples and smoothly increases with the barrier thicknesses as a consequence of the screening effects of the BST{sub 0.05}. The coupling monotonically increases with temperature in all the samples and this behavior is attributed to thermally assisted mechanisms. The magnetic anisotropy of both magnetic components has a cubic symmetry that in the case of permalloy is added to a small uniaxial component.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4960639},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22594350}, journal = {Applied Physics Letters},
issn = {0003-6951},
number = 6,
volume = 109,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Aug 08 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Mon Aug 08 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}