Nature Communications (Sep 2018)
Complex strain evolution of polar and magnetic order in multiferroic BiFeO3 thin films
- Zuhuang Chen,
- Zhanghui Chen,
- Chang-Yang Kuo,
- Yunlong Tang,
- Liv R. Dedon,
- Qian Li,
- Lei Zhang,
- Christoph Klewe,
- Yen-Lin Huang,
- Bhagwati Prasad,
- Alan Farhan,
- Mengmeng Yang,
- James D. Clarkson,
- Sujit Das,
- Sasikanth Manipatruni,
- A. Tanaka,
- Padraic Shafer,
- Elke Arenholz,
- Andreas Scholl,
- Ying-Hao Chu,
- Z. Q. Qiu,
- Zhiwei Hu,
- Liu-Hao Tjeng,
- Ramamoorthy Ramesh,
- Lin-Wang Wang,
- Lane W. Martin
Affiliations
- Zuhuang Chen
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology
- Zhanghui Chen
- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Chang-Yang Kuo
- Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
- Yunlong Tang
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California
- Liv R. Dedon
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California
- Qian Li
- Department of Physics, University of California
- Lei Zhang
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California
- Christoph Klewe
- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Yen-Lin Huang
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California
- Bhagwati Prasad
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California
- Alan Farhan
- Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Mengmeng Yang
- Department of Physics, University of California
- James D. Clarkson
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California
- Sujit Das
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California
- Sasikanth Manipatruni
- Components Research, Intel Corp.
- A. Tanaka
- Department of Quantum Matter, ADSM, Hiroshima University
- Padraic Shafer
- Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Elke Arenholz
- Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Andreas Scholl
- Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Ying-Hao Chu
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Chiao Tung University
- Z. Q. Qiu
- Department of Physics, University of California
- Zhiwei Hu
- Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
- Liu-Hao Tjeng
- Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
- Ramamoorthy Ramesh
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California
- Lin-Wang Wang
- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Lane W. Martin
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06190-5
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 9,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
To fully exploit the potential of multiferroic materials the control of their intrinsic degrees of freedom is a prerequisite. Here, the control of spin orientation in strained BiFeO3 films is demonstrated elucidating the microscopic mechanism of the complex interplay of polar and magnetic order.
