• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Structural and magnetic properties of epitaxial delafossite CuFeO2 thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition
  • Contributor: Joshi, Toyanath; Senty, Tess R.; Trappen, Robbyn; Zhou, Jinling; Chen, Song; Ferrari, Piero; Borisov, Pavel; Song, Xueyan; Holcomb, Mikel B.; Bristow, Alan D.; Cabrera, Alejandro L.; Lederman, David
  • Published: AIP Publishing, 2015
  • Published in: Journal of Applied Physics, 117 (2015) 1
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.4905424
  • ISSN: 1089-7550; 0021-8979
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  • Description: Growth of pure phase delafossite CuFeO2 thin films on Al2O3 (00.1) substrates by pulsed laser deposition was systematically investigated as a function of growth temperature and oxygen pressure. X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, Raman scattering, and x-ray absorption spectroscopy confirmed the existence of the delafossite phase. Infrared reflectivity spectra determined a band edge at 1.15 eV, in agreement with the bulk delafossite data. Magnetization measurements on CuFeO2 films demonstrated a phase transition at TC ≈ 15 ± 1 K, which agrees with the first antiferromagnetic transition at 14 K in the bulk CuFeO2. Low temperature magnetic phase is best described by commensurate, weak ferromagnetic spin ordering along the c-axis.