Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Manipulating magnetoelectric energy landscape in multiferroics

  • Yen-Lin Huang,
  • Dmitri Nikonov,
  • Christopher Addiego,
  • Rajesh V. Chopdekar,
  • Bhagwati Prasad,
  • Lei Zhang,
  • Jyotirmoy Chatterjee,
  • Heng-Jui Liu,
  • Alan Farhan,
  • Ying-Hao Chu,
  • Mengmeng Yang,
  • Maya Ramesh,
  • Zi Qiang Qiu,
  • Bryan D. Huey,
  • Chia-Ching Lin,
  • Tanay Gosavi,
  • Jorge Íñiguez,
  • Jeffrey Bokor,
  • Xiaoqing Pan,
  • Ian Young,
  • Lane W. Martin,
  • Ramamoorthy Ramesh

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16727-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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BiFeO3 has a wide application but the impact of rare-earth substitution for the evolution of the coupling mechanism is unknown. Here, the authors reveal the correlation between ferroelectricity, antiferromagnetism, a weak ferromagnetic moment, and their switching pathways in La-substituted BiFeO3.