Ferromagnetic SrRuO3 thin films are deposited on the ab-surface of single crystals of the spin-triplet superconductor Sr2RuO4 as substrates using pulsed laser deposition. The films are under a severe in-plane compressive strain. Nevertheless, the films exhibit ferromagnetic order with the easy axis along the c-direction below the Curie temperature of 158 K. The electrical transport reveals that the SrRuO3/Sr2RuO4 interface is highly conducting, in contrast with the interface between other normal-metals and the ab-surface of Sr2RuO4. Our results will stimulate the investigations on proximity effects between a ferromagnet and a spin-triplet superconductor.
@article{arxiv.1403.0345,
title = {Ferromagnetic SrRuO3 thin-film deposition on a spin-triplet superconductor Sr2RuO4 with highly conducting interface},
author = {M. S. Anwar and Yeong Jae Shin and Seung Ran Lee and Sung Jin Kang and Yuske Sugimoto and Shingo Yonezawa and Tae Won Noh and Yoshiteru Maeno},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.0345},
year = {2015}
}