Thermodynamic aspects of epitaxial self-assembly and magnetoelectric response in multiferroic nanostructures

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2087-2095

  Slutsker, Julia ^a   Tan, Zhuopeng ^a,b   Roytburd, Alexander L ^b   Levin, Igor ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; EPITAXIAL FILMS; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETOELECTRIC EFFECTS; MORPHOLOGY; NANORODS; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

DISCONTINUOUS ELECTROMAGNETIC COUPLING; MAGNETOELECTRIC COUPLING; MULTIFERROIC FILM;

COMPOSITE FILMS;

EID: 34548142254     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2007.0286     Document Type: Article

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