Roomerature spin-spiral multiferroicity in high-pressure cupric oxide

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Rocquefelte, Xavier ^a   Schwarz, Karlheinz ^b   Blaha, Peter ^b   Kumar, Sanjeev ^c   Van Den Brink, Jeroen ^d,e  

^a INSTITUT DES MATÉRIAUX JEAN ROUXEL   (France)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH MOHALI   (India)

^d Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics   (Germany)

^e DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUPRIC OXIDE;

COPPER COMPOUND; HIGH PRESSURE; MAGNETIC FIELD; POLARIZATION;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; GEOMETRY; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MAGNETIC FIELD; PHASE TRANSITION; POLARIZATION; PRESSURE GRADIENT; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SPIN SPIRAL MULTIFERROICITY;

EID: 84884928822     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3511     Document Type: Article

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