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Structural, magnetic, and superconducting properties of pulsed-laser-deposition-grown La1.85Sr0.15CuO4/La2/3Ca1/3MnO3 superlattices on (001)-oriented LaSrAIO4 substrates.
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Physical Review B: Condensed Matter & Materials Physics . Mar2014, Vol. 89 Issue 9, p094511-1-094511-12. 12p. - Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- Epitaxial La1.85Sr0.15CuO4/La2/3Ca1/3MnO3 (LSCO/LCMO) superlattices on (001)-oriented LaSrAlO4 sub- strates have been grown with pulsed laser deposition technique. Their structural, magnetic, and superconducting properties have been determined with in situ reflection high-energy electron diffraction, x-ray diffraction, specular neutron reflectometry, scanning transmission electron microscopy, electric transport, and magnetization measurements. We find that despite the large mismatch between the in-plane lattice parameters of LSCO (α = 0.3779 nm) and LCMO (α = 0.387 nm) these superlattices can be grown epitaxially and with a high crystalline quality. While the first LSCO layer remains clamped to the LaSrAlO4 substrate, a sizable strain relaxation occurs already in the first LCMO layer. The following LSCO and LCMO layers adopt a nearly balanced state in which the tensile and compressive strain effects yield alternating in-plane lattice parameters with an almost constant average value. No major defects are observed in the LSCO layers, while a significant number of vertical antiphase boundaries are found in the LCMO layers. The LSCO layers remain superconducting with a relatively high superconducting onset temperature of Tconset ≈ 36 K. The macroscopic superconducting response is also evident in the magnetization data due to a weak diamagnetic signal below 10 K for H ∥ ab and a sizable paramagnetic shift for H ∥ c that can be explained in terms of a vortex-pinning-induced flux compression. The LCMO layers maintain a strongly ferromagnetic state with a Curie temperature of TCurie ≈ 190 K and a large low-temperature saturation moment of about 3.5(1) μB per Mn ion. These results suggest that the LSCO/LCMO superlattices can be used to study the interaction between the antagonistic ferromagnetic and superconducting orders and, in combination with previous studies on YBa2Cu3O7-x/La2/3Ca1/3MnO3 superlattices, may allow one to identify the relevant mechanisms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10980121
- Volume :
- 89
- Issue :
- 9
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Physical Review B: Condensed Matter & Materials Physics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 95862761
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.89.094511