Progress in multiferroic and magnetoelectric materials: applications, opportunities and challenges
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Progress in multiferroic and magnetoelectric materials: applications, opportunities and challenges Manish Kumar1,* O. P. Thakur3
, S. Shankar1,2,3, Arvind Kumar1, Avneesh Anshul4, M. Jayasimhadri2, and
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Experimental Research Laboratory, Department of Physics, ARSD College, University of Delhi, New Delhi 110021, India Luminiscent Materials and Research Laboratory, Department of Applied Physics, Delhi Technological University, New Delhi 110042, India 3 Materials Analysis and Research Laboratory, Department of Physics, NSUT, New Delhi 110078, India 4 CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Nagpur 440020, India 2
Received: 16 May 2020
ABSTRACT
Accepted: 30 September 2020
The development of electronic technology is flexibly related to the progresses made in material science. Functional materials out of the broad class of materials available today offer unique chance for developing novel components and devices. In this framework, provides a new class of functional materials, the multiferroics (MFs), combine two or more different ferroic orders (viz. ferroelectric, ferromagnetic and ferroelastic) in a single phase and are utilized in a broad range of systems. In connection with multiferroism, a broad category of materials namely magnetoelectrics allow the electric control on magnetization or vice-versa are explored extensively. Even though, the research in the field of MFs and magnetoelectric (ME) materials can be traced back to revolutionary research in the early 1950s. There has been a contemporary resurgence of concern motivation by long-term technological aspirations. The center of attention of this review is on elementary understanding of the MFs and ME materials using a multidisciplinary approach to address the underlying mechanism responsible for the coupling, their applications in some novel devices, new opportunities and future challenges.
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1 Introduction The strong coupling between the both charge and spin orderings is essential for employing in the field of spintronics and other allied areas. The spin orderings affect the transport behavior in solids and permits the likelihood of controlling one another.
Pierre Curie discovered the enhanced productive coupling between electric and magnetic orderings in dielectrics. The theoretical existence of such coupling in one material was predicted by Landau and Lifshitz [1]. These types of materials have electric polarization proportionate to external magnetic field and generate magnetization proportionate to the external electric
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-020-04574-2
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field. Dzyaloshinskii and Astrov thereafter termed these enhanced interactions as the linear ME coupling [2, 3]. The following step was an endeavor to make a novel material having no less than two ordering, like ferroelectricity and ferromagnetism exhibited simultaneously. This was ac
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