1. Epitaxial growth of magnetostrictive TbFe2 films on piezoelectric LiNbO3
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Arnaud Hillion, Vincent Polewczyk, Michel Hehn, S. Robert, Karine Dumesnil, Pascal Boulet, Institut Jean Lamour (IJL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Lorraine (UL), Impact N4S, ANR: 15-IDEX-0004,LUE,Lorraine Université d'Excellence(2016), Université de Lorraine (UL)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and ANR-15-IDEX-0004,LUE,Isite LUE(2015)
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Materials science ,Reflection high-energy electron diffraction ,Lithium niobate ,TbFe2 ,02 engineering and technology ,hybrid nanostructures ,piezoelectric substrate ,Epitaxy ,magnetostriction ,01 natural sciences ,Crystal ,Magnetization ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,0103 physical sciences ,General Materials Science ,010306 general physics ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,Condensed matter physics ,epitaxial growth ,Magnetostriction ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Magnetic anisotropy ,chemistry ,[PHYS.COND.CM-MS]Physics [physics]/Condensed Matter [cond-mat]/Materials Science [cond-mat.mtrl-sci] ,0210 nano-technology ,Molecular beam epitaxy - Abstract
International audience; The TbFe2 compound has been deposited by Molecular Beam Epitaxy on Lithium Niobate (LN) substrates with different orientations (LN Z-, 128 Y-and 41 Y-cuts). Despite the challenging growth on these unconventional substrates, crystalline TbFe2 films (as a single orientated domain or with a limited number of orientations) of reasonable structural quality could be obtained after the deposition of a Mo buffer layer. Detailed and combined RHEED and X-ray analysis permitted to unravel the complex Mo and TbFe2 crystal orientations and to reveal common 3D Orientation Relationships (OR) between the different lattices, whatever the initial LN cut. The magnetic properties and especially the magnetic anisotropy have been investigated in taking magnetocrystalline, magnetoelastic and magnetostatic contributions into account. These promising results on the epitaxial growth of hybrid piezoelectric/ magnetostrictive crystalline system constitute an important step towards the control of magnetization via electrically generated static and/or dynamic strains, and towards the development of magnetic sensors based on Surface Acoustic Wave devices.
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- 2019
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