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Article Dans Une Revue Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences Année : 2014

Control of ferroelectricity and magnetism in multi-ferroic BiFeO3 by epitaxial strain

Jean Juraszek

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Recently, strain engineering has been shown to be a powerful and flexible means of tailoring the properties of ABO3 perovskite thin films. The effect of epitaxial strain on the structure of the perovskite unit cell can induce a host of interesting effects, these arising from either polar cation shifts or rotation of the oxygen octahedra, or both. In the multiferroic perovskite bismuth ferrite (BiFeO3-BFO), both degrees of freedom exist, and thus a complex behaviourmay be expected as one plays with epitaxial strain. In this paper, we review our results on the role of strain on the ferroic transition temperatures and ferroic order parameters. We find that, while the Néel temperature is almost unchanged by strain, the ferroelectric Curie temperature strongly decreases as strain increases in both the tensile and compressive ranges. Also unexpected is the very weak influence of strain on the ferroelectric polarization value. Using effective Hamiltonian calculations, we show that these peculiar behaviours arise from the competition between antiferrodistortive and polar instabilities. Finally, we present results on the magnetic order: while the cycloidal spin modulation present in the bulk survives in weakly strained films, it is destroyed at large strain and replaced by pseudo-collinear antiferromagnetic ordering. We discuss the origin of this effect and give perspectives for devices based on strain-engineered BiFeO3.

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hal-01053242 , version 1 (30-07-2014)

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D. Sando, Arsène Agbelele, Christophe Daumont, D. Rahmedov, W. Ren, et al.. Control of ferroelectricity and magnetism in multi-ferroic BiFeO3 by epitaxial strain. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2014, 13, pp.13. ⟨10.1098/rsta.2012.0438⟩. ⟨hal-01053242⟩
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