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Nature Materials 3, 849 - 851 (2004)
doi:10.1038/nmat1265

Magnetoelectrics: A new route to magnetic ferroelectrics

Claude Ederer1 and Nicola A. Spaldin1

  1. Claude Ederer and Nicola A. Spaldin are at the Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106-5050, USA. e-mail: nicola@mrl.ucsb.edu


Materials that exhibit both ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity could be useful, but they are unfortunately very rare. Could a new proposal for combining the two properties point the way forward?

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