Step-induced uniaxial magnetic anisotropy of La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 thin films

Mathews, Mercy and Postma, Ferry M. and Lodder, J. Cock and Jansen, R. and Rijnders, Guus and Blank, Dave H.A. (2005) Step-induced uniaxial magnetic anisotropy of La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 thin films. Applied Physics Letters, 87 (24). 242507/1-242507/3. ISSN 0003-6951

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Abstract:	The magnetic anisotropy of epitaxial La0.67 Sr0.33 MnO3 (LSMO) thin films on vicinal, TiO2 -terminated SrTiO3 substrates is investigated. Atomic force microscopy shows a regular step-terrace structure on the LSMO surface which is a replication of the surface of the substrate. The films show in-plane uniaxial magnetic anisotropy at room temperature, with the easy axis along the step direction. At low temperature the films show biaxial crystalline anisotropy with easy axes along [110], and hard axes along the [100] direction of LSMO. © 2005 American Institute of Physics
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 2005 American Institute of Physics
Faculty:	Science and Technology (TNW)
Research Group:	Inorganic Materials Science (IMS)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/53694
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2143136
Publisher URL:	http://link.aip.org/link/?APPLAB/87/242507/1
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