Microwave imaging of mesoscopic percolating network in a manganite thin film

Details Microwave imaging of mesoscopic percolating network in a manganite thin film Microwave imaging of mesoscopic percolating network in a manganite thin film

2010-07-16

arxiv.org/abs/1007.2703v1

A shortened version is published in Science 329, 190 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

4 pages,4 figures

Scientific paper

Many unusual behaviors in complex oxides are deeply associated with the spontaneous emergence of microscopic phase separation. Depending on the underlying mechanism, the competing phases can form ordered or random patterns at vastly different length scales. Using a microwave impedance microscope, we observed an orientation-ordered percolating network in strained Nd0.5Sr0.5MnO3 thin films with a large period of 100 nm. The filamentary metallic domains align preferentially along certain crystal axes of the substrate, suggesting the anisotropic elastic strain as the key interaction in this system. The local impedance maps provide microscopic electrical information of the hysteretic behavior in strained thin film manganites, suggesting close connection between the glassy order and the colossal magnetoresistance effects at low temperatures.

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