Promoting the magnetic exchanges in PLD deposited strained films of FeV2O4 thin films

Transition metal complex oxides are remarkable for the richness of tunable physical properties their strongly correlated electrons allow. We have undertaken the pulsed laser deposition of epitaxial thin films of the magnetically frustrated FeV2O4 spinel vanadate compound. A precise optimization of the oxygen pressure deposition conditions was necessary to avoid the presence of volatile over-oxidated vanadium while avoiding the presence of oxygen...