Strain induced changes in the magnetic phase diagram of metamagnetic heteroepitaxial EuSe/PbSe(1-x)Tex multilayers

Phys Rev Lett. 2005 Apr 22;94(15):157201. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.157201. Epub 2005 Apr 19.

Abstract

Multilayers of strained metamagnetic EuSe intercalated with nonmagnetic PbSe1-xTex were grown by molecular beam epitaxy under conditions optimized by electron diffraction. From detailed structural and magnetic characterization using anomalous synchrotron x-ray diffraction and magnetization measurements, the phase transition temperatures and the magnetic phase diagrams of strained EuSe as a function of the in-plane lattice constant are determined. In this way, it is demonstrated that the magnetic properties of the samples can be significantly changed by applying biaxial strain on EuSe in superlattice structures.