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Exploring the Magnetoelectric Coupling at the Composite Interfaces of FE/FM/FE Heterostructures. Sci Rep 2018; 8:17381. [PMID: 30478356 PMCID: PMC6255769 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-35648-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2018] [Accepted: 10/15/2018] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Multiferroic materials have attracted considerable attention as possible candidates for a wide variety of future microelectronic and memory devices, although robust magnetoelectric (ME) coupling between electric and magnetic orders at room temperature still remains difficult to achieve. In order to obtain robust ME coupling at room temperature, we studied the Pb(Fe0.5Nb0.5)O3/Ni0.65Zn0.35Fe2O4/Pb(Fe0.5Nb0.5)O3 (PFN/NZFO/PFN) trilayer structure as a representative FE/FM/FE system. We report the ferroelectric, magnetic and ME properties of PFN/NZFO/PFN trilayer nanoscale heterostructure having dimensions 70/20/70 nm, at room temperature. The presence of only (00l) reflection of PFN and NZFO in the X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns and electron diffraction patterns in Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) confirm the epitaxial growth of multilayer heterostructure. The distribution of the ferroelectric loop area in a wide area has been studied, suggesting that spatial variability of ferroelectric switching behavior is low, and film growth is of high quality. The ferroelectric and magnetic phase transitions of these heterostructures have been found at ~575 K and ~650 K, respectively which are well above room temperature. These nanostructures exhibit low loss tangent, large saturation polarization (Ps ~ 38 µC/cm2) and magnetization (Ms ~ 48 emu/cm3) with strong ME coupling at room temperature revealing them as potential candidates for nanoscale multifunctional and spintronics device applications.
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Schiemer JA, Lascu I, Harrison RJ, Kumar A, Katiyar RS, Sanchez DA, Ortega N, Mejia CS, Schnelle W, Shinohara H, Heap AJF, Nagaratnam R, Dutton SE, Scott JF, Nair B, Mathur ND, Carpenter MA. Elastic and anelastic relaxation behaviour of perovskite multiferroics II: PbZr 0.53Ti 0.47O 3 (PZT)-PbFe 0.5Ta 0.5O 3 (PFT). JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE 2016; 52:285-304. [PMID: 27829689 PMCID: PMC5076019 DOI: 10.1007/s10853-016-0330-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2016] [Accepted: 08/22/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Elastic and anelastic properties of ceramic samples of multiferroic perovskites with nominal compositions across the binary join PbZr0.53Ti0.47O3-PbFe0.5Ta0.5O3 (PZT-PFT) have been assembled to create a binary phase diagram and to address the role of strain relaxation associated with their phase transitions. Structural relationships are similar to those observed previously for PbZr0.53Ti0.47O3-PbFe0.5Nb0.5O3 (PZT-PFN), but the magnitude of the tetragonal shear strain associated with the ferroelectric order parameter appears to be much smaller. This leads to relaxor character for the development of ferroelectric properties in the end member PbFe0.5Ta0.5O3. As for PZT-PFN, there appear to be two discrete instabilities rather than simply a reorientation of the electric dipole in the transition sequence cubic-tetragonal-monoclinic, and the second transition has characteristics typical of an improper ferroelastic. At intermediate compositions, the ferroelastic microstructure has strain heterogeneities on a mesoscopic length scale and, probably, also on a microscopic scale. This results in a wide anelastic freezing interval for strain-related defects rather than the freezing of discrete twin walls that would occur in a conventional ferroelastic material. In PFT, however, the acoustic loss behaviour more nearly resembles that due to freezing of conventional ferroelastic twin walls. Precursor softening of the shear modulus in both PFT and PFN does not fit with a Vogel-Fulcher description, but in PFT there is a temperature interval where the softening conforms to a power law suggestive of the role of fluctuations of the order parameter with dispersion along one branch of the Brillouin zone. Magnetic ordering appears to be coupled only weakly with a volume strain and not with shear strain but, as with multiferroic PZT-PFN perovskites, takes place within crystals which have significant strain heterogeneities on different length scales.
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Affiliation(s)
- J. A. Schiemer
- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ UK
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- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ UK
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- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ UK
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- CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, Dr. K. S. Krishnan Marg, New Delhi, 110012 India
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- Department of Physics and Institute for Functional Nanomaterials, University of Puerto Rico, PO Box 23334, San Juan, PR 00931-3334 USA
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- Department of Physics and Institute for Functional Nanomaterials, University of Puerto Rico, PO Box 23334, San Juan, PR 00931-3334 USA
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- Department of Physics and Institute for Functional Nanomaterials, University of Puerto Rico, PO Box 23334, San Juan, PR 00931-3334 USA
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Nöthnitzer Straße 40, 01187 Dresden, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Nöthnitzer Straße 40, 01187 Dresden, Germany
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- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HE UK
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- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HE UK
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- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HE UK
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- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HE UK
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- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HE UK
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St. Andrews, North Haugh, St. Andrews, KY16 9SS UK
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- Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge, CB3 0FS UK
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- Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge, CB3 0FS UK
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- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ UK
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