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Dielectric spectra of Bi0.98Nd0.02FeO3.00 multiferroic thin films in the terahertz frequency range

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Transmission and reflection spectra of Bi0.98Nd0.02FeO3.00 multiferroic thin films on MgO single-crystal substrates have been measured using submillimeter spectroscopy (on a backward-wave tube spectrometer) and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy in the frequency range from 8 to 1000 cm−1 at room temperature. The complex permittivity spectra of the films have been calculated in terms of the layered medium model. It has been revealed that a decrease in the film thickness leads to a considerable increase in the losses in a range of 30 cm−1 and the corresponding fivefold increase in the static permittivity (to 500 for a film 32 nm thick). This phenomenon has been discussed in the framework of the phenomenological theory of phase transitions.

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  1. A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Vavilova 38, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    G. A. Komandin, A. A. Volkov, O. E. Porodinkov & I. E. Spektor

  2. Southern Federal University, ul. Bol’shaya Sadovaya 105/42, Rostov-on-Don, 344006, Russia

    V. I. Torgashev & V. M. Mukhortov

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Original Russian Text © G.A. Komandin, V.I. Torgashev, A.A. Volkov, O.E. Porodinkov, I.E. Spektor, V.M. Mukhortov, 2010, published in Fizika Tverdogo Tela, 2010, Vol. 52, No. 9, pp. 1717–1723.

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Komandin, G.A., Torgashev, V.I., Volkov, A.A. et al. Dielectric spectra of Bi0.98Nd0.02FeO3.00 multiferroic thin films in the terahertz frequency range. Phys. Solid State 52, 1842–1849 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S106378341009009X

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