NSF Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Translational Applications of Nanoscale Multiferroic Systems TANMS

The coexistence of magnetism and ferroelectricity (FE) in the same crystalline phase of the so-called multiferroic (MF) material offers the opportunity of magnetoelectric (ME) coupling, which can lead to magnetization switching by an electric field or polarization switching by a magnetic field. Since this phenomenon allows the storage of information in nanometer-sized memories with f...

Magneto-eletric coupling in composite multiferroics

This award supports theoretical and experimental research in condensed matter physics. The work is aimed to discovering new type of materials for nanoelectronics, called "artificial nanosolids". Such nanosolids are small particles, embedded in an insulating material, with sizes ranging from a few to hundreds of nanometers (a nanometer is approximately one million the size of the human hair). Particularly, in this research we investigate magnetic...