Among the different types of multiferroic compounds, bismuth ferrite (BiFeO 3; BFO) stands
out because it is perhaps the only one being simultaneously magnetic and strongly …

Voltage control of magnetism (VCM) is attracting increasing interest and exciting significant
research activity driven by its profound physics and enormous potential for application. This …

The realization of multiferroics in nanostructures, combined with a large electric dipole and
ferromagnetic ordering, could lead to new applications, such as high-density multistate data …

Multiferroic magnetoelectric composite systems such as ferromagnetic‐ferroelectric
heterostructures have recently attracted an ever‐increasing interest and provoked a great …

A ferroelectric crystal exhibits a stable and switchable electrical polarization that is
manifested in the form of cooperative atomic displacements. A ferromagnetic crystal exhibits …

Multiferroic magnetoelectric materials, which simultaneously exhibit ferroelectricity and
ferromagnetism, have recently stimulated a sharply increasing number of research activities …

Multiferroic materials, which show simultaneous ferroelectric and magnetic ordering, exhibit
unusual physical properties—and in turn promise new device applications—as a result of …

Electrons have a charge and a spin, but until recently these were considered separately. In
classical electronics, charges are moved by electric fields to transmit information and are …

An overview of the state of art in ferroelectric thin films is presented. First, we review
applications: microsystems' applications, applications in high frequency electronics, and …

The study of magnetoelectric materials has recently received renewed interest, in large part
stimulated by breakthroughs in the controlled growth of complex materials and by the search …