Residual-charge induced memory effect of electric polarization in multiferroic CuFe1-xGaxO2 as seen via polarized neutron diffraction

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Nakajima, Taro ^a   Mitsuda, Setsuo ^a   Yamazaki, Hiroe ^a   Matsuura, Masato ^b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CuFeO2; Memory effect; Multiferroic; Polarized neutron diffraction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874143721     PISSN: 00319015     EISSN: 13474073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7566/JPSJ.82.024706     Document Type: Article

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