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• Temperature dependent optical properties studies on Nd 2 CoMnO 6 -SrTiO 3 thin- films. • Strongly softened photon mode position below T c. • Temperature dependent Raman spectroscopic studies in detail. • Energy transfer within the non- centrosymmetric structure. The detailed temperature dependent optical properties in double perovskite type Nd 2 CoMnO 6 -SrTiO 3 (NCMO-STO) thin films have been investigated the experimentally grown epitaxial thin films on STO substrates using pulsed laser deposition technique. At first order room temperature, a Raman spectrum of NCMO/STO thin films are measured in unpolarized geometry using 488 nm laser excitation and confirms its monoclinic bulk like crystal structure. Temperature dependent Raman spectra confirms the appearance of a sharp, intense phonon mode below magnetic ordering, signifies structural phase transition accompanied by magnetic transition. The phonon mode position and line-width are fitted by anharmonic model and found to be strongly softened phonon mode position below T C and strong spin-phonon coupling in the system. The excitation spectrum and the bandgap in NCMO film confirms the yellow emission resulting from energy transfer within the non- centrosymmetric structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Zero field cooled spontaneous exchange bias (SEB) is observed in self-assembled nanocomposite thin films of La 0.7 Sr 0.3 MnO 3 (LSMO):NiO grown on single crystal line SrTiO 3 (001) substrate by pulsed laser deposition. SEB is displayed by the asymmetry in the hysteresis loop of the composite film along with the field cooled conventional exchange bias (CEB) effect. The training effect shows that exchange bias relaxation is disorder mediated. It is revealed from DC magnetization measurements that such nanocomposite film divulges spin glass like behaviour, arising due to competing ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic interactions at the assorted interfaces of ferromagnetic LSMO and antiferromagnetic NiO. X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) measurements discern that SEB is mainly originating due to ferromagnetic coupling of unstable interfacial antiferromagnetic spin due to NiO with the ferromagnetic LSMO at the disordered interface. These results of self-assembled thin films provide a useful input to realize and understand microscopic origin of SEB for device application. • Self-assembled nanocomposite thin films of La 0.7 Sr 0.3 MnO 3 (LSMO):NiO grown on SrTiO 3 (001). • Zero field cooled spontaneous exchange bias (SEB), field cooled conventional exchange bias (CEB). • The training effect shows that exchange bias relaxation is disorder mediated. • Magnetization measurements reveals the presence of interfacial disordered glass like behaviour. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]