Noriya Ichikawa, Masaya Arai, Yusuke Imai, Kei Hagiwara, Hiroshi Sakama, Masaki Azuma, Yuichi Shimakawa, Mikio Takano, Yasutoshi Kotaka, Masashi Yonetani, Hironori Fujisawa, Masaru Shimizu, Kenya Ishikawa, Yasuo Cho
APPLIED PHYSICS EXPRESS 1(10) 1013021-1013023 2008年10月 査読有り
We report the fabrication of BiFeo(3)/BiCrO3(111) artificial superlattices with 1/1 stacking in a layer-by-layer growth mode on atomically flat SrTio(3)(111) surfaces. While BiFeo(3) and BiCro(3) are antiferromagnets having Fe-O-Fe and Cr-O-Cr bonds, these superlattices contain Fe-O-Cr bonds, in which ferromagnetic interaction is expected. Magnetization measurements at 300 K revealed that the magnetic moment per transition metal ion was 1.7 mu(B), suggesting ferromagnetic spin order. Ferroelectric behavior at room temperature was confirmed by an analysis using a scanning non-linear dielectric microscope. (c) 2008 The Japan Society of Applied Physics