Nowadays, the magnetic materials with special functional characteristics are played very
important roles in the development of our present modern society. The magnetic …

It is well known that rare earth (RE) based intermetallic compounds reveal various
interesting magnetic properties depending on the crystallized structures and the constituent …

Multiferroics, compounds with both magnetic and ferroelectric orders, are believed to be a
key material system to achieve cross-control between magnetism and electricity in a solid …

Multiply periodic states appear in a wide variety of physical contexts, such as the Rayleigh–
Bénard convection, Faraday waves, liquid crystals and skyrmion crystals recently observed …

Multiferroics are those materials with more than one ferroic order, and magnetoelectricity
refers to the mutual coupling between magnetism (spins and/or magnetic field) and …

It has been shown that oxide ceramics containing multiple transition and/or rare-earth
elements in equimolar ratios have a strong tendency to crystallize in simple single-phase …

The last decade has witnessed a significant growth of research into materials with coupled
magnetic and electric properties. Reviewed here are the main types and mechanisms of …

Magnetism and ferroelectricity are essential to many forms of current technology, and the
quest for multiferroic materials, where these two phenomena are intimately coupled, is of …

Recent research activities on the linear magnetoelectric (ME) effect—induction of
magnetization by an electric field or of polarization by a magnetic field—are reviewed …

Multiferroics, defined for those multifunctional materials in which two or more kinds of
fundamental ferroicities coexist, have become one of the hottest topics of condensed matter …