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Nearly 50-nm thick La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 (LSMO) films were grown on Si substrates using molecular beam epitaxy on (001) Si substrates over-layered by a 20 nm thick SrTiO3 (STO) or by a 20 nm thick CaTiO3 (CTO) film. In addition, a reference LSMO film was directly deposited on a (001) STO substrate by pulsed laser deposition. For all the samples, X-ray diffraction revealed an excellent epitaxy of the LSMO film and small mosaicity around (001), with in-plane [100] and [010] cubic axes. The LSMO/CTO films are in-plane compressed while the LSMO/STO ones are in-plane extended. The temperature dependence of their static magnetic properties was studied using a SQUID, showing a Curie temperature overpassing 315 K for all the samples. Hysteresis loops performed at room temperature (294 K) with the help of a vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM) are also discussed. At 294 K Micro-strip ferromagnetic resonance (MS-FMR) was used to investigate the dynamic magnetic properties. It allows concluding to a strong anisotropy perpendicular to the films and to a weak fourfold in-plane anisotropy with easy axes along the [110] and [\( 1\bar{1}0 \)] directions. Their values strongly depend on the studied sample and are presumably related to the strains suffered by the films.
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The authors would like to thank F. Zighem for VSM measurements during this study.
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Belmeguenai, M., Mercone, S., Adamo, C. et al. La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 thin films on SrTiO3 and CaTiO3 buffered Si substrates: structural, static, and dynamic magnetic properties. J Nanopart Res 13, 5669–5675 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11051-011-0334-y
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