Interfacial Magnetic Features of La2CoMnO6/Pt Bilayers Studied by Using Spin Hall Magnetoresistance

Spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) is used to study interfacial magnetic features in La2CoMnO6 (LCMO)/Pt bilayers. LCMO is a ferromagnetic insulator with a Curie temperature Tc = 250 K and a strong magnetic anisotropy that can be tuned by microstructural strain. However, SMR measurements do not show...

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Autores: Martin Rio, Sergi, Frontera, Carlos, Gómez Pérez, Juan M., Aguilar Pujol, Montserrat X., Catalano, Sara, Gázquez, Jaume, Casanova, Fèlix, Balcells, Lluis, Pomar, Alberto, Martínez Perea, Benjamín
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/283506
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/283506
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85138725506
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Complex oxides
Epitaxial thin films
Interfacial magnetic properties
Spin Hall magnetoresistance
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Sumario:Spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) is used to study interfacial magnetic features in La2CoMnO6 (LCMO)/Pt bilayers. LCMO is a ferromagnetic insulator with a Curie temperature Tc = 250 K and a strong magnetic anisotropy that can be tuned by microstructural strain. However, SMR measurements do not show any dependence on the strained state of the LCMO films. In addition, contrary to what may be expected, SMR signal persists above TC exhibiting a strong magnetic field dependence well above the saturation of the magnetization while the typical hysteresis on crossing H = 0 is absent. All these results suggest that the uppermost LCMO interfacial layers are magnetically uncoupled from the rest of the LCMO film and they do not show long range magnetic ordering. This fact is confirmed by a complete scanning transmission electron microscopy study of the interface that makes evident that the last atomic layers of the LCMO film do not contain Co and have a LaMnO3+δ simple perovskite-like structure with the last atomic layer being lanthanum oxide. The analysis of the experimental results according to recent SMR theories indicates, in fact, that the LCMO interfacial layer behaves as a 2D Heisenberg ferromagnet.