BiFeO3 epitaxial thin films and devices: past, present and future

D Sando, A Barthélémy, M Bibes - Journal of Physics …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The celebrated renaissance of the multiferroics family over the past ten years has also been
that of its most paradigmatic member, bismuth ferrite (BiFeO 3). Known since the 1960s to be …

Metal oxide nanocomposites: a perspective from strain, defect, and interface

A Chen, Q Su, H Han, E Enriquez, Q Jia - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Vertically aligned nanocomposite thin films with ordered two phases, grown epitaxially on
substrates, have attracted tremendous interest in the past decade. These unique …

Real-space imaging of non-collinear antiferromagnetic order with a single-spin magnetometer

I Gross, W Akhtar, V Garcia, LJ Martínez, S Chouaieb… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Although ferromagnets have many applications, their large magnetization and the resulting
energy cost for switching magnetic moments bring into question their suitability for reliable …

Anomalous circular bulk photovoltaic effect in BiFeO3 thin films with stripe-domain pattern

DS Knoche, M Steimecke, Y Yun, L Mühlenbein… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Multiferroic bismuth ferrite, BiFeO3, offers a vast landscape to study the interplay between
different ferrroic orders. Another aspect which is equally exciting, and yet underutilized, is …

Chemical Solution Route for High‐Quality Multiferroic BiFeO3 Thin Films

B Yang, L Jin, R Wei, X Tang, L Hu, P Tong, J Yang… - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Bismuth ferrite (BiFeO3) has recently become interesting as a room‐temperature multiferroic
material, and a variety of prototype devices have been designed based on its thin films. A …

Localized Excited Charge Carriers Generate Ultrafast Inhomogeneous Strain in the Multiferroic

D Schick, M Herzog, H Wen, P Chen, C Adamo, P Gaal… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
We apply ultrafast x-ray diffraction with femtosecond temporal resolution to monitor the
lattice dynamics in a thin film of multiferroic BiFeO 3 after above-band-gap photoexcitation …

Thickness scaling of ferroelectricity in BiFeO3 by tomographic atomic force microscopy

JJ Steffes, RA Ristau, R Ramesh… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Nanometer-scale 3D imaging of materials properties is critical for understanding equilibrium
states in electronic materials, as well as for optimization of device performance and …

Effect of “symmetry mismatch” on the domain structure of rhombohedral BiFeO3 thin films

ZH Chen, AR Damodaran, R Xu, S Lee… - Applied Physics …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Considerable work has focused on the use of epitaxial strain to engineer domain structures
in ferroic materials. Here, we revisit the observed reduction of domain variants in …

Interfacial Strain Gradients Control Nanoscale Domain Morphology in Epitaxial BiFeO3 Multiferroic Films

D Sando, M Han, V Govinden, O Paull… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Domain switching pathways fundamentally control performance in ferroelectric thin
film devices. In epitaxial bismuth ferrite (BiFeO3) films, the domain morphology is known to …

Direct evidence for the spin cycloid in strained nanoscale bismuth ferrite thin films

J Bertinshaw, R Maran, SJ Callori, V Ramesh… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Magnonic devices that utilize electric control of spin waves mediated by complex spin
textures are an emerging direction in spintronics research. Room-temperature multiferroic …