Controllable electrical, magnetoelectric and optical properties of BiFeO3 via domain engineering

Y Liu, Y Wang, J Ma, S Li, H Pan, CW Nan… - Progress in Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Bismuth ferrite (BiFeO 3, BFO) as one of the few single-phase room-temperature
multiferroics, has aroused ever-increasing enthusiasm in research communities during the …

Multiferroic bismuth ferrite-based materials for multifunctional applications: Ceramic bulks, thin films and nanostructures

J Wu, Z Fan, D Xiao, J Zhu, J Wang - Progress in Materials Science, 2016 - Elsevier
Among the different types of multiferroic compounds, bismuth ferrite (BiFeO 3; BFO) stands
out because it is perhaps the only one being simultaneously magnetic and strongly …

Elastic strain engineering of ferroic oxides

DG Schlom, LQ Chen, CJ Fennie, V Gopalan… - Mrs Bulletin, 2014 - cambridge.org
Using epitaxy and the misfit strain imposed by an underlying substrate, it is possible to
elastically strain oxide thin films to percent levels—far beyond where they would crack in …

BiFeO3 epitaxial thin films and devices: past, present and future

D Sando, A Barthélémy, M Bibes - Journal of Physics …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The celebrated renaissance of the multiferroics family over the past ten years has also been
that of its most paradigmatic member, bismuth ferrite (BiFeO 3). Known since the 1960s to be …

Electric field control of magnetism in multiferroic heterostructures

CAF Vaz - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the recent developments in the electric field control of magnetism in multiferroic
heterostructures, which consist of heterogeneous materials systems where a …

Structure and properties of functional oxide thin films: insights from electronic‐structure calculations

JM Rondinelli, NA Spaldin - Advanced materials, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The confluence of state‐of‐the‐art electronic‐structure computations and modern synthetic
materials growth techniques is proving indispensable in the search for and discovery of new …

Progress in BiFeO 3-based heterostructures: materials, properties and applications

L Yin, W Mi - Nanoscale, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
BiFeO3-based heterostructures have attracted much attention for potential applications due
to their room-temperature multiferroic properties, proper band gaps and ultrahigh …

Chemical route derived bismuth ferrite thin films and nanomaterials

Q Zhang, D Sando, V Nagarajan - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Bismuth ferrite (BiFeO3–BFO) is a prototypical lead-free single phase multiferroic which
shows strong ferroelectric and antiferromagnetic properties simultaneously, together with …

Lattice strain-enhanced exsolution of nanoparticles in thin films

H Han, J Park, SY Nam, KJ Kim, GM Choi… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Nanoparticles formed on oxide surfaces are of key importance in many fields such as
catalysis and renewable energy. Here, we control B-site exsolution via lattice strain to …

First-principles predictions of low-energy phases of multiferroic BiFeO

O Diéguez, OE González-Vázquez, JC Wojdeł… - Physical Review B …, 2011 - APS
We used first-principles methods to perform a systematic search for potentially stable phases
of multiferroic BiFeO 3. We considered a simulation cell compatible with the atomic …