Giant dielectric and magnetoelectric responses in insulating nanogranular films at room temperature

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Kobayashi, Nobukiyo ^a   Masumoto, Hiroshi ^b   Takahashi, Saburo ^b   Maekawa, Sadamichi ^c  

^a Public Interest Incorporated Foundation Research Institute for Electromagnetic Materials   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOY; COBALT; FLUORIDE; IRON; MANGANESE;

DIELECTRIC PROPERTY; ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD; MEMBRANE; NANOPARTICLE; PHYSICAL SCIENCE; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FILM; NANOGRANULAR FILM; OSCILLATION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84946141565     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5417     Document Type: Article

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