Room Temperature Dy Spin-Flop Switching in Strained DyFeO₃ Thin Films
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2025-06-09
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Epitaxial strain in thin films can yield surprising magnetic and electronic properties not accessible in bulk. One materials system destined to be explored in this direction are orthoferrites with two intertwined spin systems where strain is predicted to have a significant impact on magnetic and polar properties by modifying the strength of the rare earth (R)-Fe interaction. Here the impact of epitaxial strain is reported on the linear magneto-electric DyFeO₃, a canted bulk antiferromagnet with a high Néel temperature (645 K) exhibiting a Dy-induced spin reorientation (SR) transition at ≈50 K and antiferromagnetic (AFM) ordering of the Dy spins at 4 K. An increase in the spin transition of >20 K is found and a strictly linear, abnormal temperature magnetic response under an applied magnetic field between 100 and 400 K for [010]-oriented DyFeO₃ thin films with an in-plane compressive strain between 2% and 3.5%. At room temperature and above, it is found that application of ≈0.06 T causes a spin-flop of the Dy spins coupled to the AFM Fe spin lattice, whereby the Dy spins change from an AFM alignment to ferromagnetic (FM). The spin-flop field gives a lower energy bound on the Dy-Fe exchange interaction of ≈15 µeV.
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12 (11)
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2400938
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Wiley-VCH
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DyFeO3; ferroelectricity; magnetic characterization; magnetism; orthoferrite; thin films; XRD