Mutual ferromagnetic-ferroelectric coupling in multiferroic copper-doped ZnO

  • Tun Seng Herng
  • , Meng Fei Wong
  • , Dongchen Qi
  • , Jiabao Yi
  • , Amit Kumar
  • , Alicia Huang
  • , Fransiska Cecilia Kartawidjaja
  • , Serban Smadici
  • , Peter Abbamonte
  • , Cecilia Sánchez-Hanke
  • , Santiranjan Shannigrahi
  • , Jun Min Xue
  • , John Wang
  • , Yuan Ping Feng
  • , Andrivo Rusydi*
  • , Kaiyang Zeng
  • , Jun Ding
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A mutual ferromagnetic and ferroelectric coupling (multiferroic behavior) in Cu-doped ZnO is demonstrated via deterministic control of Cu doping and defect engineering. The coexistence of multivalence Cu ions and oxygen vacancies is important to multiferroic behaviors in ZnO:Cu. The samples show clear ferroelectric and ferromagnetic domain patterns. These domain structures may be written reversibly via electric and magnetic bias.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1635-1640
Number of pages6
JournalAdvanced Materials
Volume23
Issue number14
DOIs
StatePublished - 12 Apr 2011
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • ferroelectric materials
  • magnetic materials
  • multiferroic materials
  • thin films
  • zinc oxide

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Materials Science
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Mechanical Engineering

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