Strain and Magnetic Field Induced Spin-Structure Transitions in Multiferroic BiFeO3

A Agbelele; D Sando; C Toulouse; C Paillard; R D Johnson; R Rüffer; A F Popkov; C Carrétéro; P Rovillain; J-M Le Breton; B Dkhil; M Cazayous; Y Gallais; M-A Méasson; A Sacuto; P Manuel; A K Zvezdin; A Barthélémy; J Juraszek; M Bibes

doi:10.1002/adma.201602327

Strain and Magnetic Field Induced Spin-Structure Transitions in Multiferroic BiFeO₃

Adv Mater. 2017 Mar;29(9). doi: 10.1002/adma.201602327. Epub 2016 Dec 30.

Authors

A Agbelele¹, D Sando^{2

3}, C Toulouse⁴, C Paillard⁵, R D Johnson⁶, R Rüffer⁷, A F Popkov^{8

9}, C Carrétéro², P Rovillain⁴, J-M Le Breton¹, B Dkhil⁵, M Cazayous⁴, Y Gallais⁴, M-A Méasson⁴, A Sacuto⁴, P Manuel¹⁰, A K Zvezdin^{8

11

12}, A Barthélémy², J Juraszek¹, M Bibes²

Affiliations

¹ Normandie Univ, UNIROUEN, INSA Rouen, CNRS, GPM, 76800, Rouen, France.
² Unité Mixte de Physique, CNRS, Thales, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91767, Palaiseau, France.
³ School of Materials Science and Engineering, UNSW Australia, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia.
⁴ Laboratoire Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques (UMR 7162 CNRS), Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7, 75205, Paris Cedex 13, France.
⁵ Laboratoire Structure, Propriétés et Modélisation des Solides, CentraleSupelec, CNRS-UMR8580, Université Paris-Saclay, 92290, Châtenay-Malabry, France.
⁶ Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU, UK.
⁷ European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, CS 40220, F-38043, Grenoble Cedex 9, France.
⁸ Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University), 141700, Dolgoprudny, Russia.
⁹ National Research University of Electronic Technology (MIET), Pas. 4806, Bld. 5, Zelenograd, 124498, Moscow, Russia.
¹⁰ ISIS Facility, STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, OX11 0QX, UK.
¹¹ Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991, Moscow, Russia.
¹² Russian Quantum Center, Skolkovo, Moscow, 143025, Russia.

PMID: 28036128
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201602327

Abstract

The magnetic-field-dependent spin ordering of strained BiFeO₃ films is determined using nuclear resonant scattering and Raman spectroscopy. The critical field required to destroy the cycloidal modulation of the Fe spins is found to be significantly lower than in the bulk, with appealing implications for field-controlled spintronic and magnonic devices.

Keywords: BiFeO3; cycloid; strain engineering; thin films.