Strain induced tunable anisotropic magnetoresistance in La 0.67Ca0.33MnO3/BaTiO3 heterostructures

  • Yali Xie
  • , Huali Yang
  • , Yiwei Liu
  • , Zhihuan Yang
  • , Bin Chen
  • , Zhenghu Zuo
  • , Sadhana Katlakunta
  • , Qingfeng Zhan*
  • , Run Wei Li
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In this paper, we investigated the influence of strain on anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR) in La0.67Ca0.33MnO3 (LCMO) films epitaxially grown on BaTiO3(001). For 250-nm-thick LCMO film, the AMR shows a peak near the metal-insulator transition (MIT) temperature, which is similar to that in bulk LCMO. When the thickness of LCMO is decreased to 150 nm, the AMR value achieves a maximum at low temperature. For 80-nm-thick LCMO film, in addition to the appearance of the maximum AMR at low temperature, the symmetry and sign of AMR are also changed, associated with interface strain in the different phases of BaTiO3. In comparison, the AMR for the reference LCMO films grown on SrTiO3(001) shows a maximum value near the MIT temperature regardless of the thickness of film. Our experiment results suggest that not only the strain value but also the distortion type can considerably tune the AMR of LCMO films.

Original languageEnglish
Article number17C716
JournalJournal of Applied Physics
Volume113
Issue number17
DOIs
StatePublished - 7 May 2013
Externally publishedYes

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