2023/06/03 by Rimal, Gaurab, Liu, Yiting, Brahlek, Matthew +1
#FOS: Physical sciences #Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2306.01979
It was recently reported that hydrogen-reduced PdCoO2 films exhibit strong perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) with sign tunable anomalous Hall effect (AHE). Here, we provide extensive thickness-dependent study of this system, and show that the electronic and magnetic properties are strongly dependent on the thickness and annealing conditions. Below a critical thickness of 25 nm, AHE shows clear PMA with hysteresis, and its sign changes from positive to negative, and back to positive as the annealing temperature increases from 100 ^∘C to 400 ^∘C. Beyond the critical thickness, both PMA and AHE hysteresis disappear and the AHE sign remains positive regardless of the annealing parameters. Our results show that PMA may have a large role on AHE sign-tunability and that below the critical thickness, competition between different AHE mechanisms drives this sign change.