Abstract: | The SrRuO3 films (50 nm thick) grown by laser evaporation on (001)(LaAlO3)0.3 + (Sr2AlTaO6)0.7 substrates were under partially relaxed biaxial compressive mechanical stresses. The films consisted of crystallites with
lateral dimensions of 40–100 nm and a relative azimuthal misorientation of about 0.9°. Ferromagnetic ordering of spins in
the SrRuO3 films was manifested by a change in the slope of the temperature dependence of their electrical resistivity ρ at T ≈ 155 K. For a magnetic field H parallel to the measuring current, the maximum values (∼7.5%) of the magnetoresistance MR = ρ(μ0
H = 5 T) − ρ(μ0
H = 0)]/ρ(μ0
H = 0) were observed at temperatures of about 100 K. At T = 95 K (μ0
H = 5 T), the anisotropic magnetoresistance of the films was 8% and increased by a factor of approximately 1.5 with decreasing
temperature to 4.2 K. |