High temperature magneto-electric effect in yittrium iron garnet (YIG)

We report a study on potential multiferroic characteristics of Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG). The emergence of ferroelectricity in YIG is in debate but we provide evidence for strong magneto-electric coupling above room temperature from dielectric constant measurement with and without magnetic field. We find that the apparent pseudo-ferroelectric crossover temperature in YIG varies with frequency. For higher frequency the transition shifts towards higher temperature. This is indicative of relaxor behavior. We have also measured the dielectric constant in the presence of external magnetic field at high temperature that confirms interdependence of magnetic and dielectric properties.