Manipulating magnetoelectric energy landscape in multiferroics

BiFeO3 has a wide application but the impact of rare-earth substitution for the evolution of the coupling mechanism is unknown. Here, the authors reveal the correlation between ferroelectricity, antiferromagnetism, a weak ferromagnetic moment, and their switching pathways in La-substituted BiFeO3.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yen-Lin Huang, Dmitri Nikonov, Christopher Addiego, Rajesh V. Chopdekar, Bhagwati Prasad, Lei Zhang, Jyotirmoy Chatterjee, Heng-Jui Liu, Alan Farhan, Ying-Hao Chu, Mengmeng Yang, Maya Ramesh, Zi Qiang Qiu, Bryan D. Huey, Chia-Ching Lin, Tanay Gosavi, Jorge Íñiguez, Jeffrey Bokor, Xiaoqing Pan, Ian Young, Lane W. Martin, Ramamoorthy Ramesh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16727-2