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Patrick Blah1, Stefano Gariglio2, Edouard Lesne1
1Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, P.O. Box 5046, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands.
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Free-standing membranes are an exciting recent development in the field of complex oxides, allowing intrinsic material properties and phenomena to be probed in ways that would be difficult or otherwise inaccessible in epitaxially bound heterostructures. By employment of a water-soluble sacrificial layer of Sr3Al2O6, strain-free ultrathin SrRuO3 membranes have been fabricated that exhibit bulk lattice parameters and ferromagnetism at a Curie temperature of 150 K with the magnetic easy axis oriented 22° off the normal. The presence of sizable negative longitudinal magnetoresistance provides a direct signature of the decisive role played by Weyl Fermions in magnetotransport. In addition, a sign change between the strained films and free-standing SrRuO3 membranes of in-plane transversal magnetotransport indicates a strong electromechanical coupling, resulting in a change of the Fermi velocity of Weyl Fermions. Our measurements provide a first insight into the magnetoelectric properties of SrRuO3 membranes, highlighting the influence of the exfoliation process on structural, electronic, and magnetic degrees of freedom.
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