Strain-induced perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in La${}_2$CoMnO${}_{6-\epsilon }$ thin films and its dependence with film thickness

Abstract

Ferromagnetic insulating La${}_2$CoMnO${}_{6-\epsilon }$ (LCMO) epitaxial thin films grown on top of SrTiO${}_3$ (001) substrates presents a strong magnetic anisotropy favoring the out of plane orientation of the magnetization with a strong anisotropy field ($\sim 70$ kOe for film thickness of about 15 nm) and with a coercive field of about 10 kOe. The anisotropy can be tuned by modifying the oxygen content of the film which indirectly has two effects on the unit cell: i) change of the orientation of the LCMO crystallographic axis over the substrate (from c in-plane to c out-of-plane) and ii) shrinkage of the out of plane cell parameter, which implies increasing tensile strain of the films. In contrast, LCMO films grown on (LaAlO${}_3$)${}_{0.3}$(Sr${}_2$AlTaO${}_6$)${}_{0.7}$ and LaAlO${}_3$ substrates (with a larger out-of-plane lattice parameter and compressive stress) display in-plane magnetic anisotropy. Thus, we link the strong magnetic anisotropy observed in La${}_2$CoMnO${}_{6-\epsilon }$ to the relation between in-plane and out-of-plane parameters and so to the film stress.

arXiv comment16 pages, 1 table 9 figures Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B

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