Room temperature polar and weak-ferromagnetic oxide with low dielectric loss

Nagamalleswari Katragadda, Pranab Mandal, Premakumar Yanda, A. Sundaresan, S. D. Kaushik, Weiguo Zhang, P. Shiv Halasyamani, Alicia María Manjón-Sanz

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Abstract

Single-phase materials that are simultaneously ferroelectric and ferromagnetic at room temperature are promising for devices such as non-volatile random-access memory. Perovskite BiFeO3 which crystallizes in the polar rhombohedral structure (R3c) is ferroelectric and antiferromagnetic at room temperature. Here, we report a family of perovskite oxides in the BiFeO3 – Bi2/3TiO3 – ATiO3 (where A2+ is divalent alkaline earth metal ions e.g., Ca2+, Sr2+, Ba2+) ternary phase diagram that is polar as well as weak ferromagnetic above room temperature. The composition (Bi0.9167A0.075)(Fe0.9Ti0.1)O3 crystallizes in the polar rhombohedral structure space group R3c as corroborated by powder X-ray and neutron diffraction analysis. The nearly pure A-site perovskite possesses a long-range magnetic ordering above room temperature. These perovskites show a low dielectric loss, and the electrical response is dominated by grain contributions below 723 K.

Original languageEnglish
Article number116869
JournalMaterials Science and Engineering B: Solid-State Materials for Advanced Technology
Volume298
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2023

Funding

Dr. P. Mandal and Ms. K N Malleswari acknowledge the financial support of the Early Career Research Grant from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), India Grant No. ECR/2018/001252. The authors acknowledge the financial support from UGC-DAE CSR, India through a Collaborative Research Scheme (CRS) project number CRS/2021-22/03/562. A portion of this research used resources at the Spallation Neutron Source, a DOE Office of Science User Facility operated by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (IPTS-26971). WZ and PSH thank the Welch Foundation (Grant E-1457) and the NSF (DMR-2002319) for their support. Dr. P. Mandal and Ms. K N Malleswari acknowledge the financial support of the Early Career Research Grant from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), India Grant No. ECR/2018/001252. The authors acknowledge the financial support from UGC-DAE CSR, India through a Collaborative Research Scheme (CRS) project number CRS/2021-22/03/562. A portion of this research used resources at the Spallation Neutron Source, a DOE Office of Science User Facility operated by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (IPTS-26971). WZ and PSH thank the Welch Foundation (Grant E-1457) and the NSF (DMR-2002319) for their support.

Keywords

  • Impedance spectroscopy
  • Multiferroic
  • Perovskites
  • Polar
  • Weak ferromagnetic

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