ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Data Journal

A depth-resolved study of magnetoelectric coupling in multiferroic PMN-PT/FeRh using PNR

Abstract: Multiferroic systems allow the modulation of magnetic properties through electric potentials. Advances in engineering atomic interfaces of heterogeneous thin-films have enabled a significant increase in magnetoelectric coupling compared with conventional single phase materials. This opens a range of interesting and exciting possibilities for new spintronic devices with applications in next-generation data storage technologies, such as antiferromagnetic memory resistors. One system with real potential is FeRh where a change in lattice parameter accompanies a change from anti- to ferro-magnetic ordering. Here we propose to use PNR to investigate this metamagnetic transition by manipulating the strain in FeRh thin films using ferroelectric PMN-PT substrates. The key objective of this work is to identify depth-dependent interplay between electric field and magnetic order in this system.

Principal Investigator: Professor Thomas Thomson
Experimenter: Dr Alexander Lincoln
Local Contact: Dr Christy Kinane
Experimenter: Dr William Griggs
Experimenter: Mr Michael Grimes
Experimenter: Miss Megan Smith

DOI: 10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1920363

ISIS Experiment Number: RB1920363

Publisher: STFC ISIS Neutron and Muon Source

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