Multiferroics: Progress and prospects in thin films

Nature Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 21-29

  Ramesh, R ^a   Spaldin, Nicola A ^b  

^a No 1760   (United States)

^b Santa Barbara   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITAXIAL GROWTH; FERROELECTRICITY; MAGNETIZATION;

ATOMIC-LEVEL ENGINEERING; INTERFACIAL COUPLING; MAGNETOELECTRIC COUPLING; THIN-FILM MULTIFERROICS;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 33846006566     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1805     Document Type: Review

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