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Magnetoelectrics and Multiferroics

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Magnetoelectrics and multiferroics can possess mutually coupled magnetic and ferroelectric order and thus have been utilized in exploring and designing many novel multifunctional devices such as sensors, transducers, and memories. This chapter presents a brief introduction to the terminology and classification of magnetoelectrics and multiferroics as well as the mechanisms underlying different types of magnetoelectric couplings. Both single-phase and composite materials are discussed. Experimental data showing the basic magnetic and ferroelectric properties of different types of single-phase multiferroics are collected. For composite magnetoelectrics, a relatively comprehensive experimental dataset of both the direct and inverse magnetoelectric coefficients is compiled.

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This work was supported by a start-up fund from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (J.-M.H.) and partially by the National Science Foundation under the grant no. DMR-1744213 (Chen) and partially by the Army Research Office under the grant number W911NF-17-1-0462 (J.-M.H. and L.-Q.C.). The authors acknowledge Xin Zou for helping draw some of the schematics.

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