Date of Award
Summer 8-2011
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.S.
Degree Program
Applied Physics
Department
Physics
Major Professor
Spinu, Leonard
Second Advisor
Caruntu, Gabriel
Third Advisor
Malkinski, Leszek
Fourth Advisor
Stokes, Kevin L.
Abstract
Thin films of Strontium Ruthenate have been grown on Strontium Titanate and Lanthanum Aluminate (100) substrates by pulsed laser deposition. X-ray diffraction results show that the films grown on the Strontium Titanate are amorphous and polycrystalline on the Lanthanum Aluminate. Resistances versus temperature measurements show that the films exhibit semiconducting characteristics. In addition to the growth of Strontium Ruthenate thin films, multilayer heterostructures of Terfenol-D thin films on polycrystalline Lead Titanate thin films were grown by pulsed laser deposition. By using a novel experimental technique called magnetic field assisted piezoelectric force microscopy it is possible to investigate the magnetoelectric coupling between the electrostrictive Lead Titanate and magnetostrictive Terfenol-D thin film. Upon examination of the produced thin films the phase and amplitude components of the piezoelectric signal experience changes in response to an applied in-plane magnetic field. These changes provide experimental evidence of a magnetoelectric coupling between the Terfenol-D and Lead Titanate layers.
Recommended Citation
Garza, Ezra, "Pulsed Laser Deposition of Thin Film Heterostructures" (2011). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 459.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/459
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