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The polarization and the susceptibility of a ferroelectric multilayer with a non-ferroelectric slab are investigated within the framework of transverse Ising model with a four-spin interaction term. The effect of the thickness and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Yin-Zhong Wu , Dong-Lai Yao , Wen Dong , Zhen-Ya Li

Multiferroics with coupling between ferroelectricity and magnetism have been pursued for decades. However, their magnetoelectric performances remain limited due to the common trade-off between ferroelectricity and magnetism. Here, a family…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-23 Churen Gui , Jun Chen , Shuai Dong

Artificial superlattices designed with ferromagnetic Pr0.85Ca0.15MnO3 insulating layer and ferroelectric Ba0.6Sr0.4TiO3 layer were grown on (100) SrTiO3 substrates. The magnetotransport properties were measured with the current…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Murugavel , P. Padhan , W. Prellier

The demagnetization and associated magnetocaloric effect in strong-weak-strong ferromagnetic trilayers, upon a reorientation of the strong ferromagnets from parallel to antiparallel magnetization, is simulated using atomistic spin dynamics.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-28 Milton Persson , Mykola Kulyk , Anatolii Kravets , Vladislav Korenivski

All known proper ferroelectrics are unable to polarize normal to a surface or interface if the resulting depolarization field is unscreened, but there is no fundamental principle that enforces this behavior. In this work, we introduce…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-04-01 Kevin F. Garrity , Karin M. Rabe , David Vanderbilt

We compare predictions of the mean-field theory of superconductivity for nearly antiferromagnetic and nearly ferromagnetic metals for cubic and tetragonal lattices. The calculations are based on the parametrization of an effective…

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In this work, we comprehensively investigate and discuss the structural, magnetostatic, dynamic, and magnetoresistive properties of epitaxial Co/Mo superlattices. The magnetization of the Co sublayers is coupled antiferromagnetically with a…

The demand for renewable and environmentally friendly energy source has attracted extensive research on high performance catalysts. Ferroelectrics which are a class of materials with a switchable polarization are the unique and promising…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-30 Weitong Ding , Xiao Tang , Wei Li , Liangzhi Kou , Lei Liu

We present a unique example of giant magnetoelectric effect in a conventional multiferroic HoMnO3, where polarization is very large (~56 mC/m2) and the ferroelectric transition temperature is higher than the magnetic ordering temperature by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 N. Hur , I. K. Jeong , M. F. Hundley , S. B. Kim , S. -W. Cheong

We propose to insert TiO layers to perovskite ATiO$_{3}$ to form a superlattice and use first-principles calculations to investigate its basic properties. Our computational analysis shows that the structure, which consists of repeated…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-11 S. Raza , R. Zhang , N. Zhang , Z. Li , L. Liu , F. Zhang , D. Wang , C. -L. Jia

We demonstrate that the hybrid structures consisting of a superconducting layer with an adjacent spin-textured ferromagnet demonstrate the variety of equilibrium magnetoelectric effects originating from coupling between the conduction…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-06-18 D. S. Rabinovich , I. V. Bobkova , A. M. Bobkov , M. A. Silaev

Manipulation of tunneling spin-polarized electrons via a ferroelectric interlayer sandwiched between two ferromagnetic electrodes, dubbed Multiferroic Tunnel Junctions (MFTJs), can be achieved not only by the magnetic alignments of two…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-26 Mei Fang , Sangjian Zhang , Wenchao Zhang , Lu Jiang , Eric Vetter , Ho Nyung Lee , Xiaoshan Xu , Dali Sun , Jian Shen

The synergy of ferroicity with altermagnetism offers a novel platform for designing multifunctional altermagnetic-spintronic device technology. In this work, we propose a mechanism to achieve nonvolatile electrical manipulation of spin and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-12 Rui Peng , Guangxu Su , Yangyang Fan , Jiaan Li , Fanxin Liu , Yee Sin Ang

Equilibrium spin configurations and their stability limits have been calculated for models of magnetic superlattices with a finite number of thin ferromagnetic layers coupled antiferromagnetically through (non-magnetic) spacers as Fe/Cr and…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 U. K. Roessler , A. N. Bogdanov

This work explores the static and dynamic magnetic properties of weakly antiferromagnetically coupled Fe/Ti superlattices, emphasizing the link between magnetic behavior and structural characteristics. HRTEM and XRD analyses confirm…

Discovery of polar skyrmions on the (PbTiO$_3$)$_n$/(SrTiO$_3$)$_n$ superlattice in the absence of any known interaction, which can orient electric polarizations at a point with respect to its neighboring points, is enigmatic. We here show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Snehasish Sen , Sudhansu S. Mandal

Materials with a coexistence of magnetic and ferroelectric order (i.e., multiferroics) provide an efficient route for the control of magnetism by electric fields. Unfortunately, a long-sought room temperature multiferroic with strongly…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-27 J. Y. Ni , P. S. Wang , J. L. Lu , H. J. Xiang

Multiferroics exhibit significant potential for low-power spintronic devices due to magnetoelectric coupling. Here, we discuss an emerging class of altermagnetic multiferroics, a system demonstrating distinct advantages including zero net…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-18 Wei Sun , Changhong Yang , Xiaotian Wang , Shifeng Huang , Zhenxiang Cheng

Although ferroelectric materials are characterised by their parallel arrangement of electric dipoles, in the right boundary conditions these dipoles can reorganize themselves into vortices, antivortices and other non-trivial topological…