New room temperature multiferroics on the base of single-phase nanostructured perovskites

Abstract

The theoretical description of the nanostructured Pb(Fe1/2Ta1/2)x(Zr1/2Ti1/2)1-xO3 (PFTx-PZT(1-x)) and Pb(Fe1/2Nb1/2)x(Zr1/2Ti1/2)1-xO3 (PFNx-PZT(1-x)) intriguing ferromagnetic, ferroelectric and magnetoelectric properties at temperatures higher than 100 K are absent to date. The goal of this work is to propose the theoretical description of the physical nature and the mechanisms of the aforementioned properties, including room temperature ferromagnetism, phase diagram dependence on the composition x with a special attention to the multiferroic properties at room temperature, including anomalous large value of magnetoelectric coefficient. The comparison of the developed theory with experiments establishing the boundaries between paraelectric, ferroelectric, paramagnetic, antiferromagnetic, ferromagnetic and magnetoelectric phases, as well as the characteristic features of ferroelectric domain switching by magnetic field are performed and discussed. The experimentally established absence of ferromagnetic phase in PFN, PFT and in the solid solution of PFN with PbTiO3 (PFNx-PT(1-x)) was explained in the framework of the proposed theory.

arXiv comment17 pages, 2 figures

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