• The rapid discovery of fluoride - based
multiferroic materials, which could allow for generating electric fields that would support more efficient electronic devices or be electronic responsive under a magnetic field.
Nicola Spaldin is professor of materials theory at ETH Zürich in Switzerland and winner of the 2015 Körber European Science Prize for «la [ying] the theoretical foundation for the new family of
multiferroic materials.»
In 2003, in collaboration with the group of Ramamoorthy Ramesh (now at UC Berkeley), we succeeded in producing and understanding thin films of what is now one of the most - studied
multiferroic materials, bismuth ferrite.
The first big breakthrough came in 2003 when, in collaboration with the group of Ramamoorthy Ramesh (now at UC Berkeley), we succeeded in producing and understanding thin films of what is now the most - studied
multiferroic material, bismuth ferrite.
«A conscious coupling of magnetic and electric materials: New
multiferroic material is a big step in march toward ultra-low power electronics.»
The effect can be demonstrated by sending terahertz radiation through the material: The polarization of the terahertz beam is changed if
the multiferroic material exhibits magnetic ordering.
The UCLA researchers were able to demonstrate that using
this multiferroic material to generate spin waves could reduce wasted heat and therefore increase power efficiency for processing by up to 1,000 times.
Expectations are rising for
the multiferroic material as a candidate for an innovative functional material, as it may contribute to the realization of power - saving high - density information - recording elements and power - saving ultra-high-speed logic elements.
Recent studies indicate that the stronger the spin - phonon interaction is, the more favorable it is in the development of new materials — such as
a multiferroic material, for example — in which the coupling of magnetism and the lattice system has great importance.
In their paper published in Advanced Materials, the team, including researchers from the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), illustrates how this unique marriage is achieved in
the multiferroic material BiMn3Cr4O12.
Not exact matches
These «
multiferroic»
materials absorb solar radiation and possess unique electrical and magnetic properties.
Multiferroics are
materials that simultaneously exhibit different ferroic orders, including magnetic, ferroelectric and / or ferroelastic.
I had some advantages: First - principles electronic structure theory — in which the structure and properties of chemical compounds are calculated by solving the Schrödinger equation — had just matured enough to allow the study of
materials that I thought might be good
multiferroics candidates.
Pairing ferroelectric and ferrimagnetic
materials into one
multiferroic film would capture the advantages of both systems, enabling a wider range of memory applications with minimal power requirements.
Including our new
material, a total of four are known, but only one room - temperature
multiferroic was known in which magnetism could be controlled electrically.
There are, however, extraordinary
materials called «
multiferroics,» in which electric and magnetic excitations are closely linked.
Mundy began to tackle this challenge of creating a viable
multiferroic while she was a Cornell University graduate student in the lab of Darrell Schlom, a professor of
materials science and engineering and a leading expert in molecular - beam epitaxy.
Thanks to the extensive volume of works carried out in this field worldwide over the past decade or so, the list of
materials exhibiting
multiferroic behaviour has expanded far beyond the few that were studied in Russia at the time of Curie's conjecture in the 1960s.
Ever since Curie conjectured on «the symmetry in physical phenomena, symmetry of an electric field and a magnetic field,» it has long been a dream for
material scientists to search for this rather unusual class of
material exhibiting the coexistence of magnetism and ferroelectricity in a single compound known as a
multiferroic compound.
The UCLA Engineering team used
multiferroic magnetic
materials to reduce the amount of power consumed by «logic devices,» a type of circuit on a computer chip dedicated to performing functions such as calculations.
Utilizes advanced electron microscopy techniques to study nanoscale structure and defects that determine the utility of functional
materials, such as superconductors,
multiferroics, and other energy related systems including thermoelectrics, photovoltaics, and batteries.
In his work Pan has pioneered the development and applications of advanced TEM techniques and the discovery of novel phenomena and properties of engineered
materials, which range from ferroelectrics and
multiferroics to nanocatalysts and energy
materials.
Many
materials are known for just one characteristic magnetic or electrical property, or for having the ability to change shape, but
multiferroics contain some combination of these attributes.
For example,
materials with the optimized combination of both
multiferroic mechanisms could be used as efficient switches, magnetic field sensors, and memory devices.
Neutrons are the most suitable probe to study the magnetism of these
materials and provide a distinction between the different types of
multiferroic behavior.
Then we have
multiferroics — a special group of
materials that combine the two.