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Phys Rev Lett. 2015 May 29;114(21):217602. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.217602. Epub 2015 May 27.

Magnetic structure and ordering of multiferroic hexagonal LuFeO_{3}.

Physical review letters

Steven M Disseler, Julie A Borchers, Charles M Brooks, Julia A Mundy, Jarrett A Moyer, Daniel A Hillsberry, Eric L Thies, Dmitri A Tenne, John Heron, Megan E Holtz, James D Clarkson, Gregory M Stiehl, Peter Schiffer, David A Muller, Darrell G Schlom, William D Ratcliff

Affiliations

  1. NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, USA.
  2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.
  3. School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.
  4. Department of Physics and Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.
  5. Department of Physics, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho 83725, USA.
  6. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
  7. Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.
  8. Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.

PMID: 26066458 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.217602

Abstract

We report on the magnetic structure and ordering of hexagonal LuFeO_{3} films of variable thickness grown by molecular-beam epitaxy on YSZ (111) and Al_{2}O_{3} (0001) substrates. These crystalline films exhibit long-range structural uniformity dominated by the polar P6_{3}cm phase, which is responsible for the paraelectric to ferroelectric transition that occurs above 1000 K. Using bulk magnetometry and neutron diffraction, we find that the system orders into a ferromagnetically canted antiferromagnetic state via a single transition below 155 K regardless of film thickness, which is substantially lower than that previously reported in hexagonal LuFeO_{3} films. The symmetry of the magnetic structure in the ferroelectric state implies that this material is a strong candidate for linear magnetoelectric coupling and control of the ferromagnetic moment directly by an electric field.

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