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Resistance is not futile

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The discovery of a highly resistive ferrite magnet where a low magnetic field induces a ferroelectric polarization at room temperature is a key advance towards applications of magnetoelectric coupling.

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Figure 1: The many possibilities of hexaferrites1.

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  1. Craig J. Fennie is in the School of Applied & Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-3501, USA,

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  2. Darrell G. Schlom is in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-1501, USA.,

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Fennie, C., Schlom, D. Resistance is not futile. Nature Mater 9, 787–788 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2863

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