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Domain walls, magnetization, and magnetoelectric effect in bismuth ferrite films

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The specific features of the antiferromagnetic domain structure, magnetization, and polarization induced by an inhomogeneous micromagnetic distribution in films of bismuth ferrite multiferroics have been investigated. It has been shown that the magnetic domain structure correlates with the ferroelectric domain structure, and the character of the rotation of the antiferromagnetic vector depends on the type of ferroelectric domain walls. An asymmetry in the distribution of the antiferromagnetic vector has been observed for the cases of 109° and 71° ferroelectric domain walls. It has been demonstrated that there are differences in the distributions of the polarization and magnetization in bismuth ferrite films with ferroelectric domains separated by 109° and 71° walls. The basic mechanisms responsible for the magnetization in domain walls in multiferroics have been considered.

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

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Original Russian Text © Z.V. Gareeva, A.K. Zvezdin, 2012, published in Fizika Tverdogo Tela, 2012, Vol. 54, No. 5, pp. 1004–1011.

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Gareeva, Z.V., Zvezdin, A.K. Domain walls, magnetization, and magnetoelectric effect in bismuth ferrite films. Phys. Solid State 54, 1070–1078 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063783412050095

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