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J Am Chem Soc. 2012 May 09;134(18):7700-14. doi: 10.1021/ja211138x. Epub 2012 Apr 24.

Artificial construction of the layered Ruddlesden-Popper manganite La2Sr2Mn3O10 by reflection high energy electron diffraction monitored pulsed laser deposition.

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Robert G Palgrave, Pavel Borisov, Matthew S Dyer, Sean R C McMitchell, George R Darling, John B Claridge, Maria Batuk, Haiyan Tan, He Tian, Jo Verbeeck, Joke Hadermann, Matthew J Rosseinsky

Affiliations

  1. Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool L69 7ZD, United Kingdom.

PMID: 22463768 PMCID: PMC3699890 DOI: 10.1021/ja211138x

Abstract

Pulsed laser deposition has been used to artificially construct the n = 3 Ruddlesden-Popper structure La(2)Sr(2)Mn(3)O(10) in epitaxial thin film form by sequentially layering La(1-x)Sr(x)MnO(3) and SrO unit cells aided by in situ reflection high energy electron diffraction monitoring. The interval deposition technique was used to promote two-dimensional SrO growth. X-ray diffraction and cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy indicated that the trilayer structure had been formed. A site ordering was found to differ from that expected thermodynamically, with the smaller Sr(2+) predominantly on the R site due to kinetic trapping of the deposited cation sequence. A dependence of the out-of-plane lattice parameter on growth pressure was interpreted as changing the oxygen content of the films. Magnetic and transport measurements on fully oxygenated films indicated a frustrated magnetic ground state characterized as a spin glass-like magnetic phase with the glass temperature T(g) ≈ 34 K. The magnetic frustration has a clear in-plane (ab) magnetic anisotropy, which is maintained up to temperatures of 150 K. Density functional theory calculations suggest competing antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic long-range orders, which are proposed as the origin of the low-temperature glassy state.

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