Issue 45, 2010

Engineering functionality in the multiferroic BiFeO3 – controlling chemistry to enable advanced applications

Abstract

An in-depth look at the complex materials chemistry of multiferroics is undertaken. In the last decade, considerable attention has been focused on the search for and characterization of new multiferroic materials as scientists and researchers have been driven by the promise of exotic materials functionality (i.e., electric field control of ferromagnetism). In this manuscript we develop a picture of multiferroic materials, including details on the nature of order parameters and coupling in these materials, the scarcity of such materials, routes to create and control the properties in these materials, and we finish by investigating such effects in the model multiferroic BiFeO3.

Graphical abstract: Engineering functionality in the multiferroic BiFeO3 – controlling chemistry to enable advanced applications

Article information

Article type
Perspective
Submitted
30 May 2010
Accepted
12 Jul 2010
First published
31 Aug 2010

Dalton Trans., 2010,39, 10813-10826

Engineering functionality in the multiferroic BiFeO3 – controlling chemistry to enable advanced applications

L. W. Martin, Dalton Trans., 2010, 39, 10813 DOI: 10.1039/C0DT00576B

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