Strain effects and phase separation tendency in highlystrained La0.7Ba0.3MnO3 thin films on LaAlO3 substrates
The magnetic and transport properties of epitaxial La0.7Ba0.3MnO3 films on LaAlO3 substrates have been investigated and compared with those on SrTiO3 substrates. It was found that the ferromagnetic and metallic transition temperature of the highly compressive strained films on LaAlO3 substrates decreases steadily with decreasing film thickness, while it changes little in the lightly strained films on SrTiO3 substrates. The properties of the films on LaAlO3 substrates are more sensitive to a post-annealing procedure. A tendency to phase separation, which induces a difference between the insulating-metallic transition temperature TMI and the Curie temperature TC, is observed for the films with a mild oxygen annealing process. We argue that the phase separation is due to both the highly compressive strain and oxygen deficiency in the films.
perovskite manganite epitaxial film strain phase separation
Bing Li Faliang Tian Lei Yang Xiaoping Wang Hong Zhu
Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026，China
国内会议
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2010-06-19（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）