화학공학소재연구정보센터
Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Vol.102, No.4, 1768-1775, 2019
In situ study of electric-field-induced ferroelectric and antiferromagnetic domain switching in polycrystalline BiFeO3
Antiferromagnetic domain switching induced by ferroelectric polarization switching has previously been observed insitu in both multiferroic BiFeO3 single crystals and thin films. Despite a number of reports on macroscopic magnetoelectric measurements on polycrystalline BiFeO3, direct insitu observation of electric-field-induced antiferromagnetic domain switching in this material has not been addressed due to the lack of high-quality samples capable of electrical poling. Here, the electric field control of antiferromagnetic domain texture is identified in polycrystalline BiFeO3 using insitu neutron diffraction, showing the resultant magnetic domain reorientation induced by an electric field. An antiferromagnetic domain reorientation to a value of 2.2-2.5 multiples of a random distribution (MRD) is found to be induced by an electric field that provides a non-180 degrees ferroelectric-ferroelastic domain texture of 2.2-2.5 MRD along the field direction. The current results show well-controlled coupling of multiferroic domain texturing in single-phase polycrystalline BiFeO3.