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Nature Materials 7, 269 - 270 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nmat2143

Transition metal oxides: Multiferroics go high-TC

Maxim Mostovoy1

  1. Maxim Mostovoy is at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands.
    e-mail: M.Mostovoy@rug.nl


The discovery of magnetically induced electric polarization in cupric oxide at 230 K has uncovered a new class of multiferroics with significantly higher ordering temperatures.

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