Giant sharp and persistent converse magnetoelectric effects in multiferroic epitaxial heterostructures

Nature Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 348-351

  Eerenstein, W ^a   Wiora, M ^a,b   Prieto, J L ^a,c   Scott, J F ^a   Mathur, N D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b ULM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; EPITAXIAL LAYERS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC SENSORS; MAGNETOELECTRIC EFFECTS; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE DEVICES;

COUPLING CONSTANTS; ELECTRICAL POLARIZATION; MAGNETIC-FIELD SENSORS; MULTIFERROIC EPITAXIAL HETEROSTRUCTURES;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 34247854857     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1886     Document Type: Article

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