Multiferroic ABO3 Transition Metal Oxides: a Rare Interaction of Ferroelectricity and Magnetism

Abstract

This review article summarizes the development of different kinds of materials that evolved interest in all field of science particularly on new nano-materials which possess both electric and magnetic properties at the nanoscale. Materials of such kind possessing both magnetic and electric properties have tremendous applications and own an intensive research activity. These materials induce new properties which are particularly important in electronic and magnetic devices and even in the materials where magnetic property will change by electric field or vice versa. The discovery of such ferroic properties for scientific applications is the need of hour and spreads an exciting new area that has technical and commercial potential for the discovery of advanced materials. In recent studies, the actual path by which the multiferroic properties exist has been focused and new metal oxide compounds were discovered. The understanding of the structure of these compounds through research describes a wide range of applications and the challenges of these multiferroic materials that need to be explored. In this study, fundamental aspects and structural variations of ternary transition metal oxides have been covered which possess novel properties in storage devices such as hard disk platters and magnetic read heads.

Crossover of positive and negative magnetoconductance in composites of nanosilica glass containing dual transition metal oxides

“…In this gure, the positive and negative charge distributions are represented by the red and blue coloured iso-surfaces respectively. The electronic conguration of Co 2+ and Co 3+ are [Ar]3d 7 and [Ar]3d 6 . Owing to their electronic conguration, Co 3+ possesses more stable conguration than Co 2+ resulting in higher excitation energy values.…”

“…Multiferroic materials have attracted scientic and technological interest over the past few decades because of their multifunctional properties. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] The coupling between electric and magnetic eld in multiferroic materials has been the cause of a myriad of technological revolutions in the development of magnetoelectronic devices. Researchers have developed multiferroic composites that allow co-existence of ferroelectric and ferromagnetic phases in nickel-zinc ferrite 8 and barium titanate.…”

Piezoelectric properties of zinc oxide/iron oxide filled polyvinylidene fluoride nanocomposite fibers

“…[10,11], inorganic semiconductors like ZnO, In N, GaN etc. [12], ferroelectric perovskite such as BiFeO 3 [13], and polymers such as polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) and its copolymers (poly(vinylidenefluorideco-trifluoroethylene), polyvinylidene fluoride hexafluoropropylene (PVDF-HFP)) [14,15] are widely reported for manufacturing PENGs. PVDF is a synthetic semi crystalline polymer, and its b-phase and c-phases are responsible for the piezoelectric power harvesting property.…”

Piezoelectric Properties of Zinc Oxide/Iron Oxide filled Polyvinylidene fluoride Nanocomposite Fibers

“…[10,11], inorganic semiconductors like ZnO, In N, GaN etc. [12], ferroelectric perovskite such as BiFeO 3 [13], and polymers such as Polyvinylidene uoride (PVDF) and its copolymers (poly(vinylidene uoride-cotri uoroethylene), polyvinylidene uoride hexa uoropropylene (PVDF-HFP)) [14,15] are widely reported for manufacturing PENGs. PVDF is a synthetic semi crystalline polymer, and its β-phase and γ-phases are responsible for the piezoelectric power harvesting property.…”