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Magnetoelectric Effect At The Srruo3/Batio3 (001) Interface: An Ab Initio Study, Manish K. Niranjan, John D. Burton, Julian P. Velev, Sitaram Jaswal, Evgeny Y. Tsymbal Aug 2009

Magnetoelectric Effect At The Srruo3/Batio3 (001) Interface: An Ab Initio Study, Manish K. Niranjan, John D. Burton, Julian P. Velev, Sitaram Jaswal, Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Evgeny Tsymbal Publications

Ferromagnet/ferroelectric interface materials have emerged as structures with strong magnetoelectric coupling that may exist due to unconventional physical mechanisms. Here we present a first-principles study of the magnetoelectric effect at the ferromagnet/ferroelectric SrRuO3 /BaTiO3 (001) interface. We find that the exchange splitting of the spin-polarized band structure, and therefore the magnetization, at the interface can be altered substantially by reversal of the ferroelectric polarization in the BaTiO3. These magnetoelectric effects originate from the screening of polarization charges at the SrRuO3 /BaTiO3 interface and are consistent with the Stoner model for itinerant magnetism.


Competition Between Ferromagnetic Metallic And Paramagnetic Insulating Phases In Manganites, G. Li, H. D. Zhou, S. J. Feng, Xiaojuan Fan, X. G. Li, Z. D. Wang Aug 2002

Competition Between Ferromagnetic Metallic And Paramagnetic Insulating Phases In Manganites, G. Li, H. D. Zhou, S. J. Feng, Xiaojuan Fan, X. G. Li, Z. D. Wang

Physics Faculty Research

La0.67Ca0.33Mn1−xCuxO3(x=0 and 0.15) epitaxial thin films were grown on the (100) LaAlO3 substrates, and the temperature dependence of their resistivity was measured in magnetic fields up to 12 T by a four-probe technique. We found that the competition between the ferromagnetic metallic (FM) and paramagnetic insulating (PI) phases plays an important role in the observed colossal magnetoresistance(CMR) effect. Based on a scenario that the doped manganites approximately consist of phase-separated FM and PI regions, a simple phenomenological model was proposed to describe the CMR effect. Using this model, we …