Title
Thermally assisted interlayer magnetic coupling through Ba0.05Sr0.95TiO3 barriers
Date Issued
08 August 2016
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Carreira S.
Sirena M.
Alejandro G.
Steren L.
Centro Atómico Bariloche
Publisher(s)
American Institute of Physics Inc.
Abstract
We report on the interlayer exchange coupling across insulating barriers observed on Ni80Fe20/Ba0.05Sr0.95TiO3/La0.66Sr0.33MnO3 (Py/BST0.05/LSMO) trilayers. The coupling mechanism has been analyzed in terms of the barrier thickness, samples' substrate, and temperature. We examined the effect of MgO (MGO) and SrTiO3 (STO) (001) single-crystalline substrates on the magnetic coupling and also on the magnetic anisotropies of the samples in order to get a deeper understanding of the magnetism of the structures. We measured a weak coupling mediated by spin-dependent tunneling phenomena whose sign and strength depend on barrier thickness and substrate. An antiferromagnetic (AF) exchange prevails for most of the samples and smoothly increases with the barrier thicknesses as a consequence of the screening effects of the BST0.05. The coupling monotonically increases with temperature in all the samples and this behavior is attributed to thermally assisted mechanisms. The magnetic anisotropy of both magnetic components has a cubic symmetry that in the case of permalloy is added to a small uniaxial component.
Volume
109
Issue
6
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Nano-materiales Física de la materia condensada
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84981297962
Source
Applied Physics Letters
ISSN of the container
00036951
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported by PICTS 1187, 0773, 041, 1047 of FONCYT and PIP112-201101-00482 from CONICET.
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