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Shimada T, Wang J, Araki Y, et al. Multiferroic Vacancies at Ferroelectric PbTiO(3) Surfaces. Phys Rev Lett. 2015;115(10):107202doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.107202.
Shimada, T., Wang, J., Araki, Y., Mrovec, M., Elsässer, C., & Kitamura, T. (2015). Multiferroic Vacancies at Ferroelectric PbTiO(3) Surfaces. Physical review letters, 115(10), 107202. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.107202
Shimada, Takahiro, et al. "Multiferroic Vacancies at Ferroelectric PbTiO(3) Surfaces." Physical review letters vol. 115,10 (2015): 107202. doi: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.107202
Shimada T, Wang J, Araki Y, Mrovec M, Elsässer C, Kitamura T. Multiferroic Vacancies at Ferroelectric PbTiO(3) Surfaces. Phys Rev Lett. 2015 Sep 04;115(10):107202. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.107202. Epub 2015 Sep 03. PMID: 26382700.
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Phys Rev Lett. 2015 Sep 04;115(10):107202. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.107202. Epub 2015 Sep 03.

Multiferroic Vacancies at Ferroelectric PbTiO(3) Surfaces.

Physical review letters

Takahiro Shimada, Jie Wang, Yasumitsu Araki, Matous Mrovec, Christian Elsässer, Takayuki Kitamura

Affiliations

  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering and Science, Kyoto University, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8540, Japan.
  2. Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM, Wöhlerstraße 11, 79108 Freiburg, Germany.
  3. Department of Engineering Mechanics, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.

PMID: 26382700 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.107202

Abstract

Multiferroics in nanoscale dimensions are promising for novel functional device paradigms, such as magnetoelectric memories, due to an intriguing cross-coupling between coexisting ferroelectric and (anti)ferromagnetic order parameters. However, the ferroic order is inevitably destroyed below the critical dimension of several nanometers. Here, we demonstrate a new path towards atomic-size multiferroics while resolving the controversial origin of dilute ferromagnetism that unexpectedly emerges in nanoparticles of nonmagnetic ferroelectric PbTiO(3). Systematic exploration using predictive quantum-mechanical calculations demonstrates that oxygen vacancies formed at surfaces induce ferromagnetism due to local nonstoichiometry and orbital symmetry breaking. The localized character of the emerged magnetization allows an individual oxygen vacancy to act as an atomic-scale multiferroic element with a nonlinear magnetoelectric effect that involves rich ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic-nonmagnetic phase transitions in response to switching of the spontaneous polarization.

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