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Multiferroic Bi2NiMnO6 with a Double-Perovskite Structure: High-Pressure Synthesized Bulk and Epitaxially Grown Thin Films

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Yuichi Shimakawa
Yuichi Shimakawa*
Affiliation:
[email protected], Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto, 611-0011, Japan, +81-774-38-3110, +81-774-38-3118
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Abstract

A new multiferroic compound Bi2NiMnO6 was synthesized in both bulk and thin-film forms. Bulk samples were prepared under a high pressure condition at 6 GPa, and thin-film samples were epitaxially grown on single-crystal SrTiO3 substrates by a pulsed-laser deposition method. The crystal structure of the material is a double perovskite, in which Ni2+ and Mn4+ ions are ordered in a rock-salt configuration. Bi3+ ions at the A-site cause a noncentrosymmetric (C2) structural distortion which allows a spontaneous ferroelectric polarization at room temperature. Ni2+–O–Mn4+ magnetic paths lead to ferromagnetism through the superexchange interaction according to the Kanamori-Goodenough rule. A coupling between the ferromagnetic and ferroelectric interactions appears to exist, but it is quite small.

Keywords

ferroelectricferromagneticcrystallographic structure
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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1034 , 2007 , 1034-K04-07
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2008

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