Origin of the large polarization in multiferroic YMnO${}_3$ thin films revealed by soft and hard x-ray diffraction

H. Wadati, J. Okamoto, M. Garganourakis +9

We investigated the magnetic structure of an orthorhombic YMnO3 thin film by resonant soft x-ray and hard x-ray diffraction. We observed a temperature-dependent incommensurate magn…