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Ferroelectricity and antiferroelectricity in CuCrO2-type multiferroic semiconductors

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Multiferroic semiconductors of the CuCrO2 type are considered. These materials, in the presence of free charge carriers, allow for the existence of opposite domains (in the ferroelectric FE d phase), along with ordinary 180° domains (in the FE phase). The magnetization phase transition in a chiral multiferroic, allowing for piezoelectric effects in an antiferromagnet with a layered triangular structure which result in an incommensurate (helicoidal) spin structure, is phenomenologically described. The behavior of the ferroelectric polarization in the considered phases is characterized. The antiferroelectric is considered a system of parallel layers alternating in chirality sign with oppositely directed polarization vectors. The possibility of antiferroelectric phase transition due to the specific features of the dipole-dipole interaction is discussed.

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Original Russian Text © S.A. Pikin, 2014, published in Kristallografiya, 2014, Vol. 59, No. 4, pp. 600–608.

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Pikin, S.A. Ferroelectricity and antiferroelectricity in CuCrO2-type multiferroic semiconductors. Crystallogr. Rep. 59, 542–549 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063774514040142

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