Establishing a deeper understanding of the anisotropy in manganites is useful for tailoring their magnetic properties for device applications. Here we showed that ferromagnetic La_(0.7)Sr_(0.3)MnO_3(LSMO) thin films,e...Establishing a deeper understanding of the anisotropy in manganites is useful for tailoring their magnetic properties for device applications. Here we showed that ferromagnetic La_(0.7)Sr_(0.3)MnO_3(LSMO) thin films,epitaxially grown on SrTiO_3(STO) substrates, exhibited unexpected double-shifted magnetization curves originating from the competition between common biaxial and emergent uniaxial anisotropies. This emergent uniaxial anisotropy could be induced by exchange coupling between the ferromagnetic LSMO and an antiferromagnetic LSMO dead layer at the LSMO/STO interface, which could be manipulated by the degree of oxygen deficiency.展开更多
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(51302295,61371059)Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai(13ZR1445600)Visiting Scholar Foundation of Key Discipline Laboratory of New Micro/Nano Device and System Technology in Chongqing University(2014MS05)
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51332001 and 51402164)Tsinghua University Initiative Scientific Research Program(2014Z21010 and 2014Z01006)
文摘Establishing a deeper understanding of the anisotropy in manganites is useful for tailoring their magnetic properties for device applications. Here we showed that ferromagnetic La_(0.7)Sr_(0.3)MnO_3(LSMO) thin films,epitaxially grown on SrTiO_3(STO) substrates, exhibited unexpected double-shifted magnetization curves originating from the competition between common biaxial and emergent uniaxial anisotropies. This emergent uniaxial anisotropy could be induced by exchange coupling between the ferromagnetic LSMO and an antiferromagnetic LSMO dead layer at the LSMO/STO interface, which could be manipulated by the degree of oxygen deficiency.