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Magnetic Anisotropy in Thin Layers of (Mn,Zn)Fe2O4 on SrTiO3 (001)

2020

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Herein, a ferrimagnetic manganese zinc ferrite (Mn0.5Zn0.5Fe2O4) film with a thickness of 200 nm is prepared without a buffer layer on strontium titanate (001) (SrTiO3) using pulsed laser deposition. Its magnetic properties are investigated using superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID), X-ray absorption spectroscopy with subsequent X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) and magneto-optic Kerr effect (MOKE). Hysteresis loops derived from SQUID exhibits bulk-like properties. This can further be confirmed by bulk-like XMCD spectra. In remanent magnetization, an in-plane magnetization with basically no out-of-plane component is found. The magnetic moments derived by the sum rule formalism from the XMCD data are in good agreement to the magnetization observed by SQUID and MOKE. XMCD as well as MOKE reveal an in-plane angular fourfold magnetic anisotropy with the easy direction along [110] for (Mn0.5Zn0.5)Fe2O4 on SrTiO3. The element-specific magnetic moments from XMCD show a stronger contribution of Fe to the anisotropy than of Mn and distinct contributions of the orbital moments.

Author(s): Denecke, Reinhard and Welke, Martin and Huth, Paula and Gräfe, Joachim and Brachwitz, Kerstin and Lorenz, Michael and Grundmann, Marius and Ziese, Michael and Esquinazi, Pablo David and Goering, Eberhard and Schütz, Gisela and Schindler, Karl-Michael and Chassé, Angelika
Journal: Physica Status Solidi (b)
Volume: 257
Number (issue): 7
Pages: 1900627
Year: 2020

Department(s): Modern Magnetic Systems
Bibtex Type: Article (article)

DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201900627
Eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/pssb.201900627
Language: eng
State: Published
URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/pssb.201900627

BibTex

@article{physicab2020,
  title = {Magnetic Anisotropy in Thin Layers of (Mn,Zn)Fe2O4 on SrTiO3 (001)},
  author = {Denecke, Reinhard and Welke, Martin and Huth, Paula and Gr{\"a}fe, Joachim and Brachwitz, Kerstin and Lorenz, Michael and Grundmann, Marius and Ziese, Michael and Esquinazi, Pablo David and Goering, Eberhard and Sch{\"u}tz, Gisela and Schindler, Karl-Michael and Chassé, Angelika},
  journal = {Physica Status Solidi (b)},
  volume = {257},
  number = {7},
  pages = {1900627},
  year = {2020},
  doi = {10.1002/pssb.201900627},
  eprint = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/pssb.201900627},
  url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/pssb.201900627}
}