Achieving Ferromagnetic Insulating Properties in La0.9Ba0.1MnO3 Thin Films Through Nanoengineering

The authors acknowledge Dr. Mary Vickers, Dr. John Walmsley, Dr. Jingwei Hou, Tiesheng Wang and Yisong Lin for discussion and support. The Cambridge investigators acknowledge funding from the the Leverhulme Trust grant RPG-2015-017, EPSRC grants EP/N004272/1 and EP/M000524/1, and the Isaac Newton Trust in Cambridge (minute 16.24(p)). C.Y. thanks the Cambridge Commonwealth, European & International Trust for funding. X.S., J.J., S.X. and H.W. acknowledge the U.S. National Science Foundation (DMR-1565822) for the microscopy work at Purdue University.