Heterointerface design and strain tuning in epitaxial BiFeO3:CoFe2O4 nanocomposite films

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 21, 2015, Pages

  Zhang, Wenrui ^a   Fan, Meng ^b   Li, Leigang ^a   Chen, Aiping ^c   Su, Qing ^a   Jia, Quanxi ^c   MacManus Driscoll, Judith L ^d   Wang, Haiyan ^a,b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; FILM GROWTH; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; NANOCOMPOSITES; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION;

COERCIVE FIELD; FERROELECTRIC SWITCHING; HETERO INTERFACES; INTERFACE COUPLINGS; INTERFACE STRAIN; TECHNOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE; THROUGH-THICKNESS; VERTICALLY ALIGNED;

NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS;

EID: 84948451959     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4936157     Document Type: Article

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