Complex strain evolution of polar and magnetic order in multiferroic BiFeO3 thin films

To fully exploit the potential of multiferroic materials the control of their intrinsic degrees of freedom is a prerequisite. Here, the control of spin orientation in strained BiFeO3 films is demonstrated elucidating the microscopic mechanism of the complex interplay of polar and magnetic order.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zuhuang Chen, Zhanghui Chen, Chang-Yang Kuo, Yunlong Tang, Liv R. Dedon, Qian Li, Lei Zhang, Christoph Klewe, Yen-Lin Huang, Bhagwati Prasad, Alan Farhan, Mengmeng Yang, James D. Clarkson, Sujit Das, Sasikanth Manipatruni, A. Tanaka, Padraic Shafer, Elke Arenholz, Andreas Scholl, Ying-Hao Chu, Z. Q. Qiu, Zhiwei Hu, Liu-Hao Tjeng, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Lin-Wang Wang, Lane W. Martin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06190-5