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Tailoring the multiferroic properties in Ba0.85Ca0.15Zr0.1Ti0.9O3/La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 bilayer heterostructures using residual strain

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Ba0.85Ca0.15Zr0.1Ti0.9O3/La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 (BCZT/LSMO) bilayer multiferroic heterostructures with different BCZT layer thickness are fabricated by pulsed laser deposition technique. Structural characterization of XRD and TEM reveals the epitaxial growth of the bilayer heterostructures, whose residual strain reduces with increasing thickness. The room temperature multiferroic characteristics of the bilayer heterostructures are demonstrated by the simultaneously observed ferroelectric and ferromagnetic properties as well as the magnetoelectric effect. Due to the varying residual strain, the multiferroic properties of the bilayer heterostructures show strong dependence on the BCZT layer thickness, which significantly improves with increasing thickness. The largest magnetoelectric coefficient with αE31 value of 355.2 mV/cm·Oe is achieved in BCZT/LSMO bilayer heterostructures with BCZT layer thickness of 150 nm.

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This work is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51972252, 51567017), the Key Project of the Education Department of Guizhou Province (KY2021045), the Construction Project of Characteristic Key Laboratory in Guizhou Colleges and Universities (KY2021003), the National Science Foundation of Guizhou Province (ZK2021YB301) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (WUT: 2019III029).

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Hu, M., Su, R. & Wang, C. Tailoring the multiferroic properties in Ba0.85Ca0.15Zr0.1Ti0.9O3/La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 bilayer heterostructures using residual strain. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 32, 26049–26058 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-021-06012-3

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