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Making a point of control

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The coexistence of spin order and disorder at a critical point in the phase diagram of multiferroic materials may be exploited to locally control magnetoelectric coupling — as is now shown for doped BiFeO3 by means of scanning probe microscopy.

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Figure 1: Schematic composition–temperature phase diagram of the La-doped BiFeO3 system investigated by Jang et al.1.

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