Enhanced ordering temperatures in antiferromagnetic manganite superlattices

Nature Materials

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 892-897

  May, S J ^a   Ryan, P J ^b   Robertson, J L ^c   Kim, J W ^d   Santos, T S ^a   Karapetrova, E ^d   Zarestky, J L ^b   Zhai, X ^e   Te Velthuis, S G E ^a   Eckstein, J N ^e   Bader, S D ^a   Bhattacharya, A ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; FERROMAGNETISM; MANGANESE OXIDE; MANGANITES; MODULATION; POSITIVE IONS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; X RAY SCATTERING;

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC ORDERING TEMPERATURE; ANTIFERROMAGNETIC ORDERINGS; FERROMAGNETIC SHEETS; MANGANITE SUPERLATTICES; ORDERING TEMPERATURE; OUT-OF-PLANE DIRECTION; STRUCTURAL MODULATIONS; SYNCHROTRON X-RAY SCATTERING;

ANTIFERROMAGNETISM;

EID: 70350571221     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2557     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Ohtomo, A. & Hwang, H. Y. A high-mobility electron gas at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterointerface. Nature 427, 423-426 (2004).
2. Bousquet, E. et al. Improper ferroelectricity in perovskite oxide artificial superlattices. Nature 452, 732-736 (2008).
3. Chakhalian, J. et al. Orbital reconstruction and covalent bonding at an oxide interface. Science 318, 1115-1117 (2007).
4. Smadici, S. et al. Electronic reconstruction at SrMnO3-LaMnO3 superlattice interfaces. Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 196404 (2007).
5. Bhattacharya, A. et al. The metal-insulator transition and its relation to magnetic structure in (LaMnO3)2n/(SrMnO3)n superlattices. Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 257203 (2008).
6. Ueda, K., Tabata, H. & Kawai, T. Ferromagnetism in LaFeO3-LaCrO3 superlattices. Science 280, 1064-1066 (1998).
7. Warusawithana, M. P., Colla, E. V., Eckstein, J. N. & Weissman, M. B. Artificial dielectric superlattices with broken inversion symmetry. Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 036802 (2003).
8. Lee, H. N., Christen, H. M., Chisholm, M. F., Rouleau, C. M. & Lowndes, D. H. Strong polarization enhancement in asymmetric three-component ferroelectric superlattices. Nature 433, 395-399 (2005).
9. Salvador, P. A., Haghiri-Gosnet, A.-M., Mercey, B., Hervieu, M. & Raveau, B. Growth and magnetoresistive properties of (LaMnO3)m(SrMnO3)n. Appl. Phys. Lett. 75, 2638-2640 (1999).
10. Griffiths, R. B. Nonanalytic behavior above the critical point in a random Ising ferromagnet. Phys. Rev. Lett. 23, 17-19 (1969).
11. Burgy, J., Mayr, M., Martin-Mayor, V., Moreo, A. & Dagotto, E. Colossal effects in transition metal oxides caused by intrinsic inhomogeneities. Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 277202 (2001).
12. Zener, C. Interaction between d-shells in the transition metal. II. Ferromagnetic compounds of manganese with perovskite structure. Phys. Rev. 82, 403-405 (1951).
13. Tokura, Y. & Tomioka, Y. Colossal magnetoresistive manganites. J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 200, 1-23 (1999).
14. Salamon, M. B., Lin, P. & Chun, S. H. Colossal magnetoresistance is a Griffiths singularity. Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 197203 (2002).
15. Deisenhofer, J. et al. Observation of a Griffiths phase in paramagnetic La1-xSrxMnO3. Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 257202 (2005).
16. Rodriguez-Martinez, L. M. & Attfield, J. P. Cation disorder and size effects in magnetoresistive manganese oxide perovskites. Phys. Rev. B 54, R15622-R15625 (1996).
17. Millange, F., Caignaert, V., Domenges, B., Raveau, B. & Suard, E. Order-disorder phenomena in new LaBaMn2O6 perovskites. Crystal and magnetic structure. Chem. Mater. 10, 1974-1983 (1998).
18. Akahoshi, D. et al. Random potential effect near the bicritical region in perovskite manganites as revealed by comparison with the ordered perovskite analogs. Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 177203 (2003).
19. Hemberger, J. et al. Structural, magnetic, and electrical properties of single crystalline La1-xSrxMnO3 (0.4
20. Fujishiro, H., Fukase, T. & Ikebe, M. Charge ordering and sound velocity anomaly in La1-xSrxMnO3 (x≥ 0.5).J. Phys. Soc. Jpn 67, 2582-2585 (1998).
21. Tokura, Y. & Nagaosa, N. Orbital physics in transition-metal oxides. Science 288, 462-468 (2000).
22. Konishi, Y. et al. Orbital-state-mediated phase-control of manganites. J. Phys. Soc. Jpn 68, 3790-3793 (1999).
23. Fang, Z.,Solovyev, I. V. & Terakura,K. Phase diagram of tetragonal manganites. Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 3169-3172 (2000).
24. Goodenough, J. B. Magnetism and the Chemical Bond Ch. 3 (Interscience, 1963).
25. Bhattacharya, A., Zhai, X., Warusawithana, M., Eckstein, J. N. & Bader, S. D. Signatures of enhanced ordering temperatures in digital superlattices of (LaMnO3)m/(SrMnO3)2m. Appl. Phys. Lett. 90,222503 (2007).
26. Gupta, A. etal. Growth and giant magnetoresistance properties of La-deficient Lax MnO3-δ (0.67
27. May, S. J., Santos, T. S. & Bhattacharya, A. Onset of metallic behavior in strained (LaNiO3)n/(SrMnO3)2 superlattices. Phys. Rev. B 79, 115127 (2009).
28. Chmaissem, O. etal. Relationship between structural parameters and the Néel temperature in Sr1-xCaxMnO3 (0≤x≤ 1) and Sr1-yBayMnO3 (y≤0.2). Phys. Rev. B 64, 134412 (2001).
29. Lin, C, Okamoto, S. & Millis, A. Dynamical mean-field study of model double-exchange superlattices. Phys. Rev. B 73, 041104R (2006).
30. Lin, C. & Millis, A. Theory of manganite superlattices. Phys. Rev. B 78, 184405 (2008).
31. Chatterji, T. Neutron Scattering from Magnetic Materials Ch. 2 (Elsevier, 2006).
32. Radaelli, P. G. et al. Simultaneous structural, magnetic, and electronic transitions in La1-xCaxMnO3 with x = 0.25 and 0.50. Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 4488-4491 (1995).
33. Kuwahara, H., Okuda, T., Tomioka, Y., Asamitsu, A. & Tokura, Y. Two-dimensional charge-transport and spin-valve effect in the layered antiferromagnet Nd0.45Sr0.55MnO3. Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 4316-4319 (1999).
34. Budai, J. D. et al. Preferred alignment of twin boundaries in YBa2Cu3Ox thin films and YBa2Cu3Ox/PrBa2Cu3Ox superlattices on SrTiO3. Appl. Phys. Lett. 58, 2174-2176 (1991).