Sol-gel-derived epitaxial nanocomposite thin films with large sharp magnetoelectric effect

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 6836-6842

  Liu, Bin ^a   Sun, Tao ^a   He, Jiaqing ^a   Dravid, Vinayak P ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epitaxy; Magnetoelectric; Multiferroic; Nanocomposite; Sol gel

Indexed keywords

AREAL DISTRIBUTION; COUPLING EFFECT; EPITAXY; FERROELECTRIC PHASE TRANSITION; HETEROEPITAXIAL; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION; MAGNETOELECTRIC; MAGNETOELECTRIC COUPLINGS; MULTIFERROIC MATERIALS; MULTIFERROICS; MULTIFUNCTIONAL DEVICES; NANO-STRUCTURED; NANOCOMPOSITE THIN FILMS; SUBSTRATE CLAMPING; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; THIN FILM EVAPORATION;

BARIUM COMPOUNDS; COMPOSITE FILMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC COUPLING; EPITAXIAL FILMS; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; FERROELECTRICITY; GELS; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETOELECTRIC EFFECTS; NANOCOMPOSITES; PHASE INTERFACES; PHASE SEPARATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SOL-GELS; SOLS; TENSILE STRAIN; VAPOR DEPOSITION;

SOL-GEL PROCESS;

EID: 78649565786     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn101952q     Document Type: Article

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