Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1798257 | Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials | 2016 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Epitaxial 150Â nm thick LSMO/BFO bilayer is deposited on STO (100) substrate by pulsed laser deposition, to study magnetoelectric effect. Unexpected low value of room temperature magnetization in bilayer indicates towards the possibility of interdiffusion. Further, sharp fall in the value of TC (53Â K) also added our anxiety towards possible interdiffusion in BFO/LSMO system. Low-angle x-ray diffraction technique is used to investigate interdiffusion phenomena, and the temperature-dependent interdiffusivity is obtained by accurately monitoring the decay of the first-order modulation peak as a function of annealing time. It has been found that the diffusivity at different temperatures follows Arrhenius-type behavior. X-ray reflection (XRR) pattern obtained for the bilayer could not be fitted in the Parratt's formalism, which confirms the interdiffusion in it. Depth profiles of 209Bi, 56Fe ions measured by secondary ion mass spectroscope (SIMS) further substantiate the diffusion of these ions from upper BFO layer into lower LSMO layer.
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Authors
Virendra Kumar, Anurag Gaur, R.J. Choudhary, Mukul Gupta,