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Title: | Ambipolar ferromagnetism by electrostatic doping of a manganite | Authors: | Zheng L.M. Renshaw Wang X. Lü W.M. Li C.J. Paudel T.R. Liu Z.Q. Huang Z. Zeng S.W. Han K. Chen Z.H. Qiu X.P. Li M.S. Yang S. Yang B. Chisholm M.F. Martin L.W. Pennycook S.J. Tsymbal E.Y. Coey J.M.D. Cao W.W. |
Keywords: | ferromagnetic material ionic liquid manganite unclassified drug asymmetry complexity electrical property electron functional role ion exchange ionic liquid oxide group ambipolar ferromagnetism Article atomic force microscopy calculation density functional theory electron energy loss spectroscopy magnetism oxygen tension polarization scanning transmission electron microscopy static electricity surface property |
Issue Date: | 2018 | Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group | Citation: | Zheng L.M., Renshaw Wang X., Lü W.M., Li C.J., Paudel T.R., Liu Z.Q., Huang Z., Zeng S.W., Han K., Chen Z.H., Qiu X.P., Li M.S., Yang S., Yang B., Chisholm M.F., Martin L.W., Pennycook S.J., Tsymbal E.Y., Coey J.M.D., Cao W.W. (2018). Ambipolar ferromagnetism by electrostatic doping of a manganite. Nature Communications 9 (1) : 1897. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04233-5 | Abstract: | Complex-oxide materials exhibit physical properties that involve the interplay of charge and spin degrees of freedom. However, an ambipolar oxide that is able to exhibit both electron-doped and hole-doped ferromagnetism in the same material has proved elusive. Here we report ambipolar ferromagnetism in LaMnO3, with electron-hole asymmetry of the ferromagnetic order. Starting from an undoped atomically thin LaMnO3 film, we electrostatically dope the material with electrons or holes according to the polarity of a voltage applied across an ionic liquid gate. Magnetotransport characterization reveals that an increase of either electron-doping or hole-doping induced ferromagnetic order in this antiferromagnetic compound, and leads to an insulator-to-metal transition with colossal magnetoresistance showing electron-hole asymmetry. These findings are supported by density functional theory calculations, showing that strengthening of the inter-plane ferromagnetic exchange interaction is the origin of the ambipolar ferromagnetism. The result raises the prospect of exploiting ambipolar magnetic functionality in strongly correlated electron systems. © 2018 The Author(s). | Source Title: | Nature Communications | URI: | https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/174221 | ISSN: | 2041-1723 | DOI: | 10.1038/s41467-018-04233-5 |
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