A depth-resolved study of magnetoelectric coupling in multiferroic PMN-PT/FeRh using PNR

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Multiferroic systems allow the modulation of magnetic properties through electric potentials. Advances in engineering atomic interfaces of heterogeneous thin-films have enabled a significant increase in magnetoelectric coupling compared with conventional single phase materials. This opens a range of interesting and exciting possibilities for new spintronic devices with applications in next-generation data storage technologies, such as antiferromagnetic memory resistors. One system with real potential is FeRh where a change in lattice parameter accompanies a change from anti- to ferro-magnetic ordering. Here we propose to use PNR to investigate this metamagnetic transition by manipulating the strain in FeRh thin films using ferroelectric PMN-PT substrates. The key objective of this work is to identify depth-dependent interplay between electric field and magnetic order in this system.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1920363-1
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/109731140
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Creator Dr Alexander Lincoln; Dr Christy Kinane; Dr William Griggs; Professor Thomas Thomson; Mr Michael Grimes; Miss Megan Smith
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2023
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2020-02-24T08:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2020-03-02T13:13:20Z