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 …

Magnetoelectric devices for spintronics

S Fusil, V Garcia, A Barthélémy… - Annual Review of …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
The control of magnetism by electric fields is an important goal for the future development of
low-power spintronics. Various approaches have been proposed on the basis of either …

First-principles approaches to magnetoelectric multiferroics

C Xu, H Yu, J Wang, H Xiang - Annual Review of Condensed …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Magnetoelectric multiferroics, which display both ferroelectric and magnetic orders, are
appealing because of their rich fundamental physics and promising technological …

Near room-temperature multiferroic materials with tunable ferromagnetic and electrical properties

HJ Zhao, W Ren, Y Yang, J Íñiguez, XM Chen… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The quest for multiferroic materials with ferroelectric and ferromagnetic properties at room
temperature continues to be fuelled by the promise of novel devices. Moreover, being able …

[HTML][HTML] A multiferroic on the brink: Uncovering the nuances of strain-induced transitions in BiFeO3

D Sando, B Xu, L Bellaiche, V Nagarajan - Applied Physics Reviews, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Bismuth ferrite (BiFeO 3) is one of the very few known single-phase multiferroic materials.
While the bulk compound is rhombohedral (R), the discovery of an epitaxial strain-induced …

High-Temperature Ferroic Glassy States in -Based Thin Films

T Li, S Deng, H Qi, T Zhu, Y Chen, H Wang, F Zhu… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Disordered ferroics hold great promise for next-generation magnetoelectric devices because
their lack of symmetry constraints implies negligible hysteresis with low energy costs …

Ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity in a superlattice of antiferromagnetic perovskite oxides without ferroelectric polarization

PC Rout, A Ray, U Schwingenschlögl - npj Computational Materials, 2023 - nature.com
We study the structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of the SrCrO3/YCrO3
superlattice and their dependence on epitaxial strain. We discover that the superlattice …

Large Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy and Giant Coercivity in the Ferrimagnetic Double Perovskite Lu2NiIrO6

PC Rout, U Schwingenschlogl - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
We discover that large uniaxial magnetocrystalline anisotropy driven by the simultaneous
presence of spin–orbit coupling and structural distortions is the origin of the giant coercivity …

Nature of spin-lattice coupling in two-dimensional CrI3 and CrGeTe3

J Li, JS Feng, PS Wang, EJ Kan, HJ Xiang - Science China Physics …, 2021 - Springer
Spin-lattice (SL) coupling plays an important role in spintronic applications given its effects
on magnetic, ferroelectric, optical, and thermodynamic properties. Experiments and …

Insights into the phase diagram of bismuth ferrite from quasiharmonic free-energy calculations

C Cazorla, J Íniguez - Physical Review B, 2013 - APS
We have used first-principles methods to investigate the phase diagram of multiferroic
bismuth ferrite (BiFeO 3 or BFO), revealing the energetic and vibrational features that control …