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Enhanced multiferroic properties of (Nd, Cr) co-doped BiFeO3 nanoparticles

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Pure BiFeO3 (BFO) and doped Bi1−x Nd x Fe0.975Cr0.025O3 (x = 0.025, 0.05, and 0.075) nanoparticles were prepared by a sol–gel method. The doping effects were systematically investigated on the structural, morphological, magnetic, and ferroelectric properties. The dopant results in forming nanoparticles, and the (Nd, Cr) co-doped BFO nanoparticles show excellent ferromagnetic and ferroelectric properties. The proposed mechanism for the co-doped BFO provides an alternative strategy to form nanoparticles with enhanced multiferroic properties.

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Acknowledgements

We acknowledge the financial support from the Ministry of Education of China (No. IRT1148), the National Natural Science Foundation of China [61271234, 51372119, 61377019, 61136003, Jiangsu Synergistic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials (SICAM), the Project Funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD, YX03001), and 51173081], College Postgraduate Research and Innovation Project of Jiangsu Province (KYLX_0794 and KYLX15_0848), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu (BX20150860), and the Natural Science Foundation of NJUPT (NY214129, NY214130, NY214181, and NY215022).

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    Huazhong Shu & Rongfang Song

  2. Key Laboratory for Organic Electronics and Information Displays (KLOEID), Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), School of Materials Science and Engineering (SMSE), Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), Nanjing, 210023, People’s Republic of China

    Huazhong Shu, Zhongcao Wang, Weiwei Mao, Yuhui Ma, Xingfu Wang, Wei Chen, Jian Zhang & Xing’ao Li

  3. College of Science, Information Physics Research Center, Advanced Energy Technology Center, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), Nanjing, 210023, People’s Republic of China

    Huazhong Shu, Weiwei Mao, Liang Chu, Xingfu Wang, Wei Chen & Jianping Yang

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Shu, H., Wang, Z., Mao, W. et al. Enhanced multiferroic properties of (Nd, Cr) co-doped BiFeO3 nanoparticles. Appl. Phys. A 123, 338 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-017-0849-x

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