A strong ferroelectric ferromagnet created by means of spin-lattice coupling

Nature

Volumn 466, Issue 7309, 2010, Pages 954-958

  Lee, June Hyuk ^a,b   Fang, Lei ^c   Vlahos, Eftihia ^b   Ke, Xianglin ^b   Jung, Young Woo ^c   Kourkoutis, Lena Fitting ^a   Kim, Jong Woo ^d   Ryan, Philip J ^d   Heeg, Tassilo ^a   Roeckerath, Martin ^e   Goian, Veronica ^f   Bernhagen, Margitta ^g   Uecker, Reinhard ^g   Hammel, P Chris ^c   Rabe, Karin M ^h   Kamba, Stanislav ^f   Schubert, Jürgen ^e   Freeland, John W ^d   Muller, David A ^a   Fennie, Craig J ^a   Schiffer, Peter ^b   Gopalan, Venkatraman ^b   Johnston Halperin, Ezekiel ^c   Schlom, Darrell G ^a   more..

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^f INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^g LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR CRYSTAL GROWTH   (Germany)

^h RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIN; EUROPIUM TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TITANIUM DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; EUROPIUM; EUROPIUM TITANIUM TRIOXIDE; OXIDE; TITANIUM;

COMPRESSION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC FIELD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INSULATION; IRON; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIZATION; POLARIZATION; TENSILE STRENGTH;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS COUPLING REACTION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FERROELECTRIC FERROMAGNET; FILM; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MAGNET; MAGNETISM; PHASE TRANSITION; PIEZOELECTRICITY; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIN LATTICE COUPLING; TENSILE STRENGTH; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRICITY; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTRICITY; EUROPIUM; MAGNETICS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING TRANSMISSION; OXIDES; TEMPERATURE; TITANIUM; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 77955978902     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09331     Document Type: Article

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