Experimental investigation reveals coercivity peaks in vanadium oxide and nickel bilayers during phase transition, suggesting proximal first-order transitions strongly tune ferromagnetism.
We studied the temperature dependence of coercivity and magnetization of V2O3/Ni bilayers across the Structural Phase Transition in V2O3. We found a coercivity peak that coincides with the V2O3 phase transition on top of an overall increase of the coercivity with decreasing temperature. We propose that this sharp increase arises from a length scale competition between magnetic domains of Ni and phase coexistence during the V2O3 phase transition. This model is supported by micromagnetic simulations and shows that magnetic properties of ferromagnetic films are strongly affected by a proximal first order phase transition.
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