Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The magnetic control by acoustically induced strain has driven significant research to pursue novel, ultrafast, compact, and energy-efficient electronic and spintronic devices. In this regard, magnetoelastic antiferromagnets have been highlighted as promising functional materials for this purpose. In this work, we report an experimental and phenomenological study of acoustic resonances in the two magnetic sublattices antiferromagnet ${\mathrm{NdFeO}}_{3}$, which exhibits strong interplay between magnetic and lattice degrees of freedom. The elastic properties of ${\mathrm{NdFeO}}_{3}$ are characterized through resonant ultrasound spectroscopy in the 2--300 K range. Domain-wall dynamics were studied by temperature-dependent Faraday magneto-optical imaging and AC magnetic susceptibility measurements. The results evidence the magnetoelastic coupling in ${\mathrm{NdFeO}}_{3}$, for which two different mechanisms contribute. The continuous spin reorientation transition is mirrored by the rather high acoustic losses, which correlate with the dispersion of the complex magnetic susceptibility and magnetic domain-wall dynamics. The results are compatible with the expected symmetry lowering during the spin reorientation transition and follow what is expected from a phenomenological approach. The paramagnetic ordering of the Nd sublattice under the influence of the Fe-sublattice magnetic field is found to influence the magnetoelastic properties just below the spin reorientation transition interval. This study highlights the elastic properties of ${\mathrm{NdFeO}}_{3}$, an interesting material for domain-wall motion control and local properties tailoring, which are the key for future applications in nanoscale devices.
DOI: 10.1103/rmzj-hj3y
Language: English
Field: Materials Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Awards: G1028660006, Centro de Física da Universidade de Coimbra, G1677158198, G20870584, G2285047463, G2309234036, Elastic anomalies and anelastic dissipation mechanisms associated with phase transitions in minerals., G2883581804, G3018495312, Distorções estruturais controladas por campo eléctrico para dispositivos optoelectrónicos, G5038560491, G5092107417, G5530603615, G568491858, G5757750298, G6337795986, Laboratório de Física para Materiais e Tecnologias Emergentes, G6997658380, G727124269, G787716430, Elasticity of ferroic and multiferroic materials: a new UK facility for Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy with applied magnetic field up to 14 Teslas, G8007244209, G8649534962, Controlling hidden quantum phases towards dynamical multiferroicity through nonlinear phononics
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