Multilayers of strained metamagnetic EuSe intercalated with nonmagnetic ${\mathrm{PbSe}}_{1-x}{\mathrm{Te}}_x$ were grown by molecular beam epitaxy under conditions optimized by electron diffraction. From detailed structural and magnetic characterization using anomalous synchrotron x-ray diffraction and magnetization measurements, the phase transition temperatures and the magnetic phase diagrams of strained EuSe as a function of the in-plane lattice constant are determined. In this way, it is demonstrated that the magnetic properties of the samples can be significantly changed by applying biaxial strain on EuSe in superlattice structures.

• Received 21 January 2005

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.157201