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Epitaxial growth and the magnetic properties of orthorhombic YTiO3 thin films

S. C. Chae, Y. J. Chang, S. S. A. Seo, T. W. Noh, D. -W. Kim, C. U. Jung

cond-mat.mtrl-sciarXiv:cond-mat/0609602

Abstract

High-quality YTiO3 thin films were grown on LaAlO3 (110) substrates at low oxygen pressures (<10-8 Torr) using pulsed laser deposition. The in-plane asymmetric atomic arrangements at the substrate surface allowed us to grow epitaxial YTiO3 thin films, which have an orthorhombic crystal structure with quite different a- and b-axes lattice constants. The YTiO3 film exhibited a clear ferromagnetic transition at 30 K with a saturation magnetization of about 0.7 uB/Ti. The magnetic easy axis was found to be along the [1-10] direction of the substrate, which differs from the single crystal easy axis direction, i.e., [001].

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