Electric in-plane polarization in multiferroic CoFe2O 4/BaTiO3 nanocomposite tuned by magnetic fields

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Schmitz Antoniak, Carolin ^a   Schmitz, Detlef ^b   Borisov, Pavel ^a,d   De Groot, Frank M F ^c   Stienen, Sven ^a   Warland, Anne ^a   Krumme, Bernhard ^a   Feyerherm, Ralf ^b   Dudzik, Esther ^b   Kleemann, Wolfgang ^a   Wende, Heiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANTHANIDE; MULTIFERROIC NANOCOMPOSITE; NANOCOMPOSITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

COMPOSITE; MAGNETIC FIELD; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PIEZOELECTRICITY; POLARIZATION; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ELECTRIC FIELD; EXCIMER LASER; LINEAR DICHROISM; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOMETRY; PHASE SEPARATION; PHASE TRANSITION; POLARIZATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84886367128     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3051     Document Type: Article

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