<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">The aim of the present work was to study magnetoelectric effect (ME) in (BiFeO3)x-(BaTiO3)1-x solid solutions in terms of technological conditions applied in the samples fabrication process. The rapidly growing interest in these materials is caused by their multiferroic behaviour, i.e. coexistence of both electric and magnetic ordering. It creates possibility for many innovative applications, e.g. in steering the magnetic memory by electric field and vice versa. The investigated samples of various chemical compositions (i.e. x = 0.7, 0.8 and 0.9) were prepared by the solid-state sintering method under three sets of technological conditions differing in the applied temperature and soaking time. Measurements of the magnetoelectric voltage coefficient αME were performed using a dynamic lock-in technique. The highest value of αME was observed for 0.7BiFeO3-0.3BaTiO3 solid solution sintered at the highest temperature (T = 1153 K) after initial electrical poling despite that the soaking time was reduced 10 times in this case.</abstract>

The aim of the present work was to study magnetoelectric effect (ME) in (BiFeO3)x-(BaTiO3)1-x solid solutions in terms of technological conditions applied in the samples fabrication process. The rapidly growing interest in these materials is caused by their multiferroic behaviour, i.e. coexistence of both electric and magnetic ordering. It creates possibility for many innovative applications, e.g. in steering the magnetic memory by electric field and vice versa. The investigated samples of various chemical compositions (i.e. x = 0.7, 0.8 and 0.9) were prepared by the solid-state sintering method under three sets of technological conditions differing in the applied temperature and soaking time. Measurements of the magnetoelectric voltage coefficient αME were performed using a dynamic lock-in technique. The highest value of αME was observed for 0.7BiFeO3-0.3BaTiO3 solid solution sintered at the highest temperature (T = 1153 K) after initial electrical poling despite that the soaking time was reduced 10 times in this case.

Magnetoelectric effect in (BiFeO3)x–(BaTiO3)1-x solid solutions

National Centre for Nuclear Research, Nuclear Energy Division, Otwock-Swierk, Poland

Lublin University of Technology, Institute of Electronics and Information Technology, Lublin, Poland

Institute of Electron Technology, Cracow Division, Krakow, Poland

University of Silesia, Department of Materials Science, Sosnowiec, Poland

Materials Science-Poland

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Magnetoelectric effect in (BiFeO)–(BaTiO) solid solutions

The aim of the present work was to study magnetoelectric effect (ME) in (BiFeO3)x-(BaTiO3)1-x solid solutions in terms of technological conditions applied in...

Magnetoelectric effect in (BiFeO₃)_x–(BaTiO₃)_1-x solid solutions

Published Online: Mar 13, 2015

Page range: 107 - 112

Received: Jun 28, 2014

Accepted: Oct 15, 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/msp-2015-0012

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