Giant Piezomagnetism in Mn3NiN.
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Journal Article
Abstract
Controlling magnetism with electric field directly or through strain-driven piezoelectric coupling remains a key goal of spintronics. Here we demonstrate that giant piezomagnetism, a linear magneto-mechanic coupling effect, is manifest in antiperovskite Mn3NiN, facilitated by its geometrically frustrated antiferromagnetism opening the possibility of new memory device concepts. Films of Mn3NiN with intrinsic biaxial strains of ±0.25% result in Néel transition shifts up to 60K and magnetisation changes consistent with theory. Films grown on BaTiO3 display a striking magnetisation jump in response to uniaxial strain from the intrinsic BaTiO3 structural transition, with an inferred 44% strain coupling efficiency and a magnetoelectric coefficient α (where α=dB/dE) of 0.018 G cm/V. The latter agrees with the 1000-fold increase over Cr2O3 predicted by theory. Overall our observations pave the way for further research into the broader family of Mn-based antiperovskites where yet larger piezomagnetic effects are predicted to occur at room temperature.
Date Issued
2018-05-04
Date Acceptance
2018-05-04
Citation
ACS Appl Mater Interfaces, 2018, 10 (22), pp.18863-18868
Publisher
American Chemical Society
Start Page
18863
End Page
18868
Journal / Book Title
ACS Appl Mater Interfaces
Volume
10
Issue
22
Copyright Statement
© 2018 American Chemical Society. This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b03112
Sponsor
EPSRC Pathways to Impact Funding, EPSRC Internal Scheme
Identifier
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29726252
Grant Number
EP/K503733/1
Subjects
antiferromagnet
antiperovskite
nonvolatile memory
piezomagnetism
spintronics
0904 Chemical Engineering
0303 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry
0306 Physical Chemistry (Incl. Structural)
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
United States
Date Publish Online
2018-05-04