Strain-Induced Magnetic Anisotropy in Epitaxial Thin Films of the Spinel CoCr${}_2$O${}_4$

Jeroen A. Heuver, Andrea Scaramucci, Yves Blickenstorfer +4

We show that the magnetic anisotropy in spinel-structure CoCr${}_2$O${}_4$ thin films exhibits a strain dependence in which compressive strain induces an out-of-plane magnetic easy axi…