The growth of thin films by chemical methods has been a hot topic in the recent years as they offer appealing advantages over vacuum techniques as stoichiometric versatility and low-cost scalability. Among them, Polymer-Assisted-Deposition (PAD) is particularly attractive as it relies in environmentally friendly water-based solutions. However, serious concerns have been raised on the control of their interfacial quality limiting their use in emergent applications relaying in flat sharp interfaces, for example, for spintronics.

It is shown that La_0.92MnO₃ (LMO) thin films grown by PAD are of high microstructural quality with low magnetic damping, thus suitable for spintronic applications. Ferromagnetic resonance measurements in LMO/Pt bilayers gives clear indications of injection of pure spin currents into the Pt layer by spin pumping. This transfer of spin angular momentum through the interface between the ferromagnetic layer (LMO) and Pt layer is evidenced by an increase of magnetic damping. These results are of strong interest since they demonstrate that PAD technique allows obtaining complex oxide thin films of high microstructural quality suitable for spintronic applications.

We also present a deep study of the temperature dependence of the magnetodynamic properties of LMO thin films prepared by PAD showing that microstructural strain release from rhombohedral bulk phase results in an in-plane four-fold anisotropy with [110] as easy axis.

Our results demonstrate that LMO films grown by PAD may be used as efficient spin source systems in heterostructures for spintronic devices.