A novel perovskite oxide chemically designed to show multiferroic phase boundary with room-temperature magnetoelectricity.

ABSTRACT: There is a growing activity in the search of novel single-phase multiferroics that could finally provide distinctive magnetoelectric responses at room temperature, for they would enable a range of potentially disruptive technologies, making use of the ability of controlling polarization with a magnetic field or magnetism with an electric one (for example, voltage-tunable spintronic devices, uncooled magnetic sensors and the long-searched magnetoelectric memory). A very promising novel material concept could be to make use of phase-change phenomena at structural instabilities of a multiferroic state. Indeed, large phase-change magnetoelectric response has been anticipated by a first-principles investigation of the perovskite BiFeO₃-BiCoO₃ solid solution, specifically a

SUBMITTER: Fernandez-Posada CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5052705 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature