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| Author(s): |
Cotica, Luiz F.
[1, 2]
;
Santos, Guilherme M.
[1]
;
Freitas, Valdirlei F.
[3]
;
Coelho, Adelino A.
[4]
;
Pal, Madhuparna
[2]
;
Santos, Ivair A.
[1]
;
Garcia, Ducinei
[5]
;
Eiras, Jose A.
[5]
;
Guo, Ruyan
[2]
;
Bhalla, Amar S.
[2]
Total Authors: 10
|
| Affiliation: | [1] Univ Estadual Maringa, Dept Phys, BR-87020900 Maringa, Parana - Brazil
[2] Univ Texas San Antonio, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, San Antonio, TX 78249 - USA
[3] Univ Estadual Centro Oeste, Dept Phys, BR-85040080 Guarapuava, PR - Brazil
[4] Univ Estadual Campinas, Inst Fis Gleb Wataghin, BR-13083859 Campinas, SP - Brazil
[5] Univ Fed Sao Carlos, Dept Phys, BR-13565905 Sao Carlos, SP - Brazil
Total Affiliations: 5
|
| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | Journal of Applied Physics; v. 117, n. 6 FEB 14 2015. |
| Web of Science Citations: | 2 |
| Abstract | |
It is still a challenging problem to obtain technologically useful materials displaying strong magnetoelectric coupling at room temperature. In the search for new effects and materials to achieve this kind of coupling, a nonlinear magnetoelectric effect was proposed in the magnetically disordered relaxor ferroelectric materials. In this context, the aluminum iron oxide ( AlFeO3), a room temperature ferroelectric relaxor and magnetic spin glass compound, emerges as an attractive lead-free magnetoelectric material along with nonlinear magnetoelectric effects. In this work, static, dynamic, and temperature dependent ferroic and magnetoelectric properties in lead-free AlFeO3 and 2 at.% Nb-doped AlFeO3 multiferroic magnetoelectric compositions are studied. Pyroelectric and magnetic measurements show changes in ferroelectric and magnetic states close to each other ( similar to 200 K). The magnetoelectric coefficient behavior as a function of Hbias suggests a room temperature nonlinear magnetoelectric coupling in both single-phase and Nb-doped AlFeO3-based ceramic compositions. (C) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 08/04025-0 - Nanostructured multifunctional multiferroic materials: synthesis, properties, phenomenology and applications |
| Grantee: | José Antonio Eiras |
| Support Opportunities: | Research Projects - Thematic Grants |