Published March 21, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Room temperature ferroelectric, ferromagnetic and magnetoelectric properties of Ba-doped BiFeO3 thin films

  • 1. Center for Superconducting and Magnetic Materials, Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117542, Singapore (Singapore)

Description

Ba-doped multiferroic BiFeO3thin films were successfully prepared on Pt/TiO2/SiO2/Si(1 0 0) substrates by pulsed laser deposition. X-ray diffraction showed that the Bi0.75Ba0.25FeO3thin film was single phase with (1 0 1) preferential polycrystalline orientation. Both ferroelectricity and ferromagnetism of these films were observed at room temperature by P-E and M-H loop measurements, respectively. The magnetoelectric coupling effect was demonstrated by measuring the dielectric constant in a varying magnetic field. The dielectric constants measured at 10 kHz increased with an increase in the applied magnetic field, giving a coupling coefficient (εr (H) - εr (0))/εr (0) of 1.1% at H = 8 kOe at room temperature, which shows potential application

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1088/0022-3727/40/6/002;
PII
S0022-3727(07)36653-9;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Physics. D, Applied Physics
Journal Volume
40
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
p. 1603-1607
ISSN
0022-3727
CODEN
JPAPBE