Ferroelectric Proximity Effect and Topological Hall Effect in SrRuO3/BiFeO3Multilayers

Xiaokang Yao; Can Wang; Er Jia Guo; Xinyan Wang; Xiaomei Li; Lei Liao; Yong Zhou; Shan Lin; Qiao Jin; Chen Ge; Meng He; Xuedong Bai; Peng Gao; Guozhen Yang; Kui Juan Jin

doi:10.1021/acsami.1c21703

Ferroelectric Proximity Effect and Topological Hall Effect in SrRuO₃/BiFeO₃Multilayers

Xiaokang Yao
, Can Wang^*
, Er Jia Guo
, Xinyan Wang
, Xiaomei Li
, Lei Liao
, Yong Zhou
, Shan Lin
, Qiao Jin
, Chen Ge
, Meng He
, Xuedong Bai
, Peng Gao
, Guozhen Yang
, Kui Juan Jin

^*Corresponding author for this work

CAS - Institute of Physics
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory
Peking University

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Abstract

Interfaces between complex oxides provide a unique opportunity to discover novel interfacial physics and functionalities. Here, we fabricate the multilayers of itinerant ferromagnet SrRuO3 (SRO) and multiferroic BiFeO3 (BFO) with atomically sharp interfaces. Atomically resolved transmission electron microscopy reveals that a large ionic displacement in BFO can penetrate into SRO layers near the BFO/SRO interfaces to a depth of 2-3 unit cells, indicating the ferroelectric proximity effect. A topological Hall effect is indicated by hump-like anomalies in the Hall measurements of the multilayer with a moderate thickness of the SRO layer. With magnetic measurements, it can be further confirmed that each SRO layer in the multilayers can be divided into interfacial and middle regions, which possess different magnetic ground states. Our work highlights the key role of functional heterointerfaces in exotic properties and provides an important guideline to design spintronic devices based on magnetic skyrmions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	6194-6202
Number of pages	9
Journal	ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
Volume	14
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c21703
State	Published - 2 Feb 2022
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

complex oxides
ferroelectric proximity effect
interfacial physics
magnetism
transport

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