A novel perovskite oxide chemically designed to show multiferroic phase boundary with room-temperature magnetoelectricity

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Fernández Posada, Carmen M ^a   Castro, Alicia ^a   Kiat, Jean Michel ^b,c   Porcher, Florence ^c   Peña, Octavio ^d   Algueró, Miguel ^a   Amorín, Harvey ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b ECOLE CENTRALE PARIS   (France)

^c DIF   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL; PEROVSKITE;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC METHOD; PEROVSKITE; POLARIZATION; SENSOR; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRICITY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; POLARIZATION; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84989270923     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12772     Document Type: Article

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