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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-25759-1
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- Basic Science Center Program of NSFC [51788104]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2016YFA0302300]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11974052, 51725104, 51672007]
- Beijing Natural Science Foundation [Z190008]
- CAS Interdisciplinary Innovation Team
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The study successfully achieved a magnetoelectric phase transition in oxide superlattices by engineering the crystal symmetry, increasing polarization, and altering interfacial interactions. This resulted in enhancements of the transition temperature and magnetoelectric coefficient.
Strongly correlated oxides with a broken symmetry could exhibit various phase transitions, such as superconductivity, magnetism and ferroelectricity. Construction of superlattices using these materials is effective to design crystal symmetries at atomic scale for emergent orderings and phases. Here, antiferromagnetic Ruddlesden-Popper Sr2IrO4 and perovskite paraelectric (ferroelectric) SrTiO3 (BaTiO3) are selected to epitaxially fabricate superlattices for symmetry engineering. An emergent magnetoelectric phase transition is achieved in Sr2IrO4/SrTiO3 superlattices with artificially designed ferroelectricity, where an observable interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction driven by non-equivalent interface is considered as the microscopic origin. By further increasing the polarization namely interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction via replacing SrTiO3 with BaTiO3, the transition temperature can be enhanced from 46 K to 203 K, accompanying a pronounced magnetoelectric coefficient of similar to 495 mV/cm center dot Oe. This interfacial engineering of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction provides a strategy to design quantum phases and orderings in correlated electron systems. A controllable magnetoelectric phase based on symmetry engineering is challenge in natural bulk crystals. Here, via engineering of interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, the authors design a magnetoelectric phase transition in oxide superlattices of correlated electron systems.
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