Publications related to Multiferroics

Snap buckling of bistable beams under combined mechanical and magnetic loading

Pedro Miguel Nunes Pereira de Almeida Reis, Dong Yan, Tomohiko Sano, Arefeh Abbasi

We investigate the mechanics of bistable, hard-magnetic, elastic beams, combining experiments, finite-element modelling (FEM) and a reduced-order theory. The beam is made of a hard magneto-rheological elastomer, comprising two segments with antiparallel ma ...

ROYAL SOC2023

Linear and nonlinear magnetization dynamics in permalloy thin films grown on DNA origami and nanopatterned permalloy/YIG hybrid structures

Andrea Mucchietto

Spin waves (SWs) are collective excitations of the spin ensemble in systems with magnetic order. In quantum mechanics, a SW is known as a magnon, which is the quasiparticle describing the quantized nature of these wave-like excitations. Magnonics is the re ...

EPFL2023

Giant switchable non thermally-activated conduction in 180 degrees domain walls in tetragonal Pb(Zr,Ti)O-3

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Igor Stolichnov, Felix Risch

Conductive domain walls in ferroelectrics offer a promising concept of nanoelectronic circuits with 2D domain-wall channels playing roles of memristors or synoptic interconnections. However, domain wall conduction remains challenging to control and pA-rang ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Ultrafast dynamic switching of optical response based on nonlinear hyperbolic metamaterial platform (vol 30, pg 21634, 2022)

Jiaye Wu, Qian Li

We present an erratum to our previously published work [ "Ultrafast dynamic switching of optical response based on nonlinear hyperbolic metamaterial platform, " Opt. Express 30(12), 21634 (2022).]. The corrections do not affect the results and conclusion o ...

Optica Publishing Group2022

Ferroelectric Effects Probed by in situ Transmission Electron Microscopy

Reinis Ignatans

Ferroelectric perovskite oxides are widely used in sensors, actuators and optical modulators and, at the same time, they show promise for implementation in future applications such as energy storage, memory and cooling devices. At the infancy of the discov ...

EPFL2022

Proximity-Induced Novel Ferromagnetism Accompanied with Resolute Metallicity in NdNiO3 Heterostructure

Joël Mesot, Zoran Ristic, Marco Caputo, Zheng Wang, Anna Zakharova

Employing X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD), angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), and momentum-resolved density fluctuation (MRDF) theory, the magnetic and electronic properties of ultrathin NdNiO3 (NNO) film in proximity to ferromagne ...

2021

Challenges and Applications to Operando and In Situ TEM Imaging and Spectroscopic Capabilities in a Cryogenic Temperature Range

Vasiliki Tileli, Martial Duchamp, Reinis Ignatans

In this Account, we describe the challenges and promising applications of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) imaging and spectroscopy at cryogenic temperatures. Our work focuses on two areas of application: the delay of electron-beam-induced degradatio ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Field-dependent roughness of moving domain walls in a Pt/Co/Pt magnetic thin film

Elisabeth Agoritsas

The creep motion of domain walls driven by external fields in magnetic thin films is described by universal features related to the underlying depinning transition. One key parameter in this description is the roughness exponent characterizing the growth o ...

2021

Fundamentals and perspectives of ultrafast photoferroic recording

Anna Pogrebna

The ability to switch ferroics (ferro-, ferri-, antiferromagnets, ferroelectrics, multiferroics) between two stable bit states is one of the keystones of modern data storage technology. Due to many new ideas, originating from fundamental research during th ...

2020

Current-induced dynamical tilting of chiral domain walls in curved microwires

Joe Martin Bailey

We report on the investigation of current-induced domain wall motion of Neel domain walls in perpendicularly magnetized microwires with curved geometries in the flow regime. The investigation was performed by time-resolved scanning transmission x-ray micro ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2020

Individual Barkhausen Pulses of Ferroelastic Nanodomains

Dragan Damjanovic, Vasiliki Tileli, Reinis Ignatans

Ferroelectric materials, upon electric field biasing, display polarization discontinuities known as Barkhausen jumps, a subclass of a more general phenomenon known as crackling noise. Herein, we follow at the nanoscale the motion of 90 degree needle domain ...

2021

Antiferroelectric antiferromagnetic type-I multiferroic Cu9O2(SeO3)(4)Cl-6

Helmuth Berger, Wei Li

We report that Cu9O2(SeO3)(4)Cl-6 is a new multiferroic compound. Comprehensive studies of this compound have been carried out on single crystals as well as polycrystalline samples. Magnetic susceptibility chi and specific heat C with H parallel to c axis ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2019

Complex magnetoelectric effect in multiferroic composites: the case of PFN- PT/(Co,Ni)Fe2O4

Hadi Papi, Hossein Ahmadvand

We report a systematic study of the magnetoelectric (ME) voltage coefficient as a complex quantity in the particulate composite of ferroelectric solid solution 0.94Pb(Fe1/2N1/2)O-3-0.06PbTiO(3)(PFN-PT) with CoFe2O4(CFO) and NiFe2O4 (NFO) ferrites. The resu ...

2019

Observation of charge-transfer-driven antiferroelectricity in 3d-pyrochlore multiferroic Cu2OCl2

Helmuth Berger, Wei Li

Very recently, multiferroic behavior close to the boiling temperature of liquid nitrogen was reported in oxohalide-based Cu2OCl2. In this study, we have established yet another novel mechanism for the origin of charge ordering in multiferroic Cu2OCl2. The ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

PbZrTiO3 ferroelectric oxide as an electron extraction material for stable halide perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Michael Saliba, Silver Hamill Turren Cruz, Zaiwei Wang, Hui-Seon Kim, Monica Marcela Lira Cantu, Haibing Xie, Anna Morales Melgares

State-of-the-art halide perovskite solar cells employ semiconductor oxides as electron transportmaterials. Defects in these oxides, such as oxygen vacancies (Ovac), act as recombination centres and, in air and UV light, reduce the stability of the solar ce ...

2019

Frequency-dependent decoupling of domain-wall motion and lattice strain in bismuth ferrite

Dragan Damjanovic

Dynamics of domain walls are among the main features that control strain mechanisms in ferroic materials. Here, we demonstrate that the domain-wall-controlled piezoelectric behaviour in multiferroic BiFeO3 is distinct from that reported in classical ferroe ...

Nature Research2018

Magnetic phase diagram of Ca-substituted EuFe2As2

The simultaneous presence of an Fe-related spin-density wave and the antiferromagnetic order of Eu-2(+) moments ranks EuFe2As2 among the most interesting parent compounds of iron-based pnictide superconductors. Here we explore the consequences of the dilut ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2018

Negative-pressure-induced helimagnetism in ferromagnetic cubic perovskites Sr1-xBaxCoO3

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Jonathan White

Helimagnetic materials are identified as promising for novel spintronic applications. Since helical spin order is manifested as a compromise of competing magnetic exchange interactions, its emergence is limited by unique constraints imposed by the crystall ...

2018

Piezoelectric softening by Nb substitution in (Ba,Pb)ZrO

Dragan Damjanovic, Nava Setter, Nicola Marzari, Alberto Biancoli, David Bahati

Donor doping is commonly applied for softening of the piezoelectric and dielectric properties and facilitation of polarization switching in the ubiquitous Pb(Zr,Ti)O-3 [PZT] ceramics. The origin of the donor-dopant effects is not entirely clear. (Pb,Ba)ZrO ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Collective Excitations in Strongly Interacting and Correlated Quantum Systems

Edoardo Baldini

Revealing the emergence and the dynamics of collective excitations in complex matter is a subject of pivotal importance, as it provides insight into the strength and spatial distribution of interactions and correlations. At the same time, collectivity lies ...

EPFL2017