Multiferroics: progress and prospects in thin films
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- 1 January 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature Materials
- Vol. 6 (1), 21-29
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1805
Abstract
Multiferroic materials, which show simultaneous ferroelectric and magnetic ordering, exhibit unusual physical properties — and in turn promise new device applications — as a result of the coupling between their dual order parameters. We review recent progress in the growth, characterization and understanding of thin-film multiferroics. The availability of high-quality thin-film multiferroics makes it easier to tailor their properties through epitaxial strain, atomic-level engineering of chemistry and interfacial coupling, and is a prerequisite for their incorporation into practical devices. We discuss novel device paradigms based on magnetoelectric coupling, and outline the key scientific challenges in the field.Keywords
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