Ab initio Evidence for Giant Magnetoelectric Responses Driven by Structural Softness

Jacek C. Wojdeł; Jorge Íñiguez

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.037208

Ab initio Evidence for Giant Magnetoelectric Responses Driven by Structural Softness

Materials Science 2012-04-17 v1

Authors: Jacek C. Wojdeł , Jorge Íñiguez

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Abstract

We show that inducing structural softness in regular magnetoelectric (ME) multiferroics -- i.e., tuning the materials to make their structure strongly reactive to applied fields -- makes it possible to obtain very large ME effects. We present illustrative first-principles results for BiFeO3 thin films.

Keywords

multiferroic thin film magnetism

Cite

@article{arxiv.1004.3152,
  title  = {Ab initio Evidence for Giant Magnetoelectric Responses Driven by Structural Softness},
  author = {Jacek C. Wojdeł and Jorge Íñiguez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.3152},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

4 pages with 3 figures embedded. More information at http://www.icmab.es/dmmis/leem/jorge

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