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Recent Progress in Multiferroic Magnetoelectric Composites: from Bulk to Thin Films (Adv. Mater. 9/2011)
Author(s) -
Ma Jing,
Hu Jiamian,
Li Zheng,
Nan CeWen
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.201190024
Subject(s) - multiferroics , materials science , spintronics , ferroelectricity , nanotechnology , thin film , ferromagnetism , piezoelectricity , coupling (piping) , magnetoelectric effect , composite number , engineering physics , optoelectronics , composite material , condensed matter physics , dielectric , engineering , physics
Multiferroic magnetoelectric composite systems such as ferromagnetic‐ferroelectric heterostructures have recently attracted an ever‐increasing interest and provoked a great number of research activities, driven by profound physics from coupling between ferroelectric and magnetic orders, as well as potential applications in novel multifunctional devices, such as sensors, transducers, memories, and spintronics. In this Review, we try to summarize what remarkable progress in multiferroic magnetoelectric composite systems has been achieved in most recent few years, with emphasis on thin films; and to describe unsolved issues and new device applications which can be controlled both electrically and magnetically.