Exploration of artificial multiferroic thin-film heterostructures using composition spreads
- 19 April 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 84 (16), 3091-3093
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1699474
Abstract
We have fabricated a series of composition spreads consisting of ferroelectric BaTiO 3 and piezomagnetic CoFe 2 O 4 layers of varying thicknesses modulated at nanometer level in order to explore artificial magnetoelectricthin-filmheterostructures. Scanning microwavemicroscopy and scanning superconducting quantum interference device microscopy were used to map the dielectric and magnetic properties as a function of continuously changing average composition across the spreads, respectively. Compositions in the middle of the spreads were found to exhibit ferromagnetism while displaying a dielectric constant as high as ≈120.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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