Strain Tuning of Multiferroic Materials

Abstract

Abstract: The original definition of multiferroics is that one owns two or three “ferro” properties, such as ferroelectricity, ferroelasticity, and ferromagnetism. Furthermore, novel effects would be generated by the cross-coupling effect among various orders of multiferroic materials, and it has a broad application prospect in electronic information, sensing, storage, wireless network and other fields. At present, researchers are still focus on the multiferroic materials with strong magnetoelectric coupling effect at room temperature. However, the realization and application of devices based on multiferroics are still on the way. Strain engineering is an effective way that can influence the physical properties of multiferroic materials. The physical properties of materials such as electricity, magnetism, and photoacoustic could be influenced by strain engineering through the interaction of lattice with electrons, spins, and orbits. Tuning the structural and physical properties of ferroelectric thin films by strain has been paid extensive attention. Through investigating the research of strain engineering in multiferroic materials in this paper, herein, the strain engineering in multiferroics are summarized and effect of strain engineering on the physical properties of multiferroics is reviewed. It is prospected that the current work may provide research ideas for the investigation and development of multiferroic materials.

Key words: multiferroic material, strain engineering, ferroelectricity, ferromagnetism, negative capacitance, thin film, magnetoelectric coupling

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YUE Wenfeng, YU Liang, GUO Quansheng, JIA Tingting, YU Shuhui. Strain Tuning of Multiferroic Materials[J]. JOURNAL OF SYNTHETIC CRYSTALS, 2022, 51(1): 154-169.

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