Surface states modulated exchange interaction in Bi2Se3/thulium iron garnet heterostructures
Hai-Bin Shi(石海滨)1,2, Li-Qin Yan(闫丽琴)1,2, Yang-Tao Su(苏仰涛)1,2, Li Wang(王力)1,2, Xin-Yu Cao(曹昕宇)1,2, Lin-Zhu Bi(毕林竹)1,2, Yang Meng(孟洋)1,2, Yang Sun(孙阳)1,2, and Hong-Wu Zhao(赵宏武)1,2,3, †
1 Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China 2 School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China 3 Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan 523808, China
We investigate the modulation of magnetic anisotropy of thulium iron garnet (TmIG) films by interfaced Bi2Se3 thin films. High quality epitaxial growth of Bi2Se3 films has been achieved by molecular beam epitaxy on TmIG films. By the method of ferromagnetic resonance, we find that the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) of TmIG can be greatly strengthened by the adjacent Bi2Se3 layer. Moreover, the competition between topological surface states and thickness dependent bulk states of Bi2Se3 gives rise to the modulation of PMA of the Bi2Se3/TmIG heterostructures. The interfacial interaction can be attributed to the enhanced exchange coupling between Fe3+ ions of TmIG mediated by topological surface electrons of Bi2Se3.
Received: 12 August 2020
Revised: 16 September 2020
Accepted manuscript online: 28 September 2020
Fund: the National Key Basic Research Project of China (Grant No. 2016YFA0300600), the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDB33020300), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11604375 and 11874416).
Hai-Bin Shi(石海滨), Li-Qin Yan(闫丽琴), Yang-Tao Su(苏仰涛), Li Wang(王力), Xin-Yu Cao(曹昕宇), Lin-Zhu Bi(毕林竹), Yang Meng(孟洋), Yang Sun(孙阳), and Hong-Wu Zhao(赵宏武) Surface states modulated exchange interaction in Bi2Se3/thulium iron garnet heterostructures 2020 Chin. Phys. B 29 117302
Fig. 1.
(a) The 2θ–ω XRD scan of a TmIG (22 nm) film. (b) Hysteresis loop of a TmIG film (35 nm) with out-of-plane applied field. Inset: the in-plane hysteresis loop. (c) RHEED patterns of TmIG (12 nm), and (d) Bi2Se3 (8 nm)/TmIG (12 nm).
Fig. 2.
(a) FMR derivative absorption spectra of TmIG (12 nm), TmIG (12 nm)/Bi2Se3 (6 nm), and TmIG (12 nm)/Pt (6 nm) with out-of-plane applied magnetic fields. (b) FMR spectra of TmIG (12 nm)/Bi2Se3 (6 nm) as H is rotated from the film normal (θH = 0°) to in-plane (θH = 90°). (c) θH dependence of Hres for TmIG (12 nm),TmIG (12 nm)/Bi2Se3 (6 nm), and TmIG (12 nm)/Pt (6 nm). The points are experimental data and the solid lines represent the theoretical fit. (d) The tBS dependence of Ha for TmIG (12 nm)/Bi2Se3 (tBS) heterostructures. The upper and lower dashed lines show the Ha values of TmIG (12 nm) and TmIG (12 nm)/Pt (6 nm), respectively.
Fig. 3.
Temperature dependence of Ha for TmIG (12 nm), TmIG (12 nm)/Bi2Se3 (6 nm), TmIG (12 nm)/Bi2Se3 (12 nm), and TmIG (12 nm)/Pt (6 nm), respectively.
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