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A new route to magnetic ferroelectrics

Nature Materials volume 3, pages 849–851 (2004)Cite this article

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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Figure 1: Ferroelectricity in typical perovskite manganites, such as BaTiO3.
Figure 2: Models of charge ordering in doped perovskite-structured manganites.

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Ederer, C., Spaldin, N. A new route to magnetic ferroelectrics. Nature Mater 3, 849–851 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1265

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