Optical properties and magnetochromism in multiferroic BiFeO3

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 13, 2009, Pages

  Xu, X S ^a   Brinzari, T V ^a   Lee, S ^b   Chu, Y H ^c   Martin, L W ^c,d,e   Kumar, A ^f   McGill, S ^g   Rai, R C ^a,h   Ramesh, R ^c,d,e   Gopalan, V ^f   Cheong, S W ^b   Musfeldt, J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 66049163587     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.79.134425     Document Type: Article

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