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Anomaly in structural noncentrosymmetry around T-N in bulk and nanoscale BiFeO3

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Title Anomaly in structural noncentrosymmetry around T-N in bulk and nanoscale BiFeO3
 
Creator Goswami, Sudipta
Bhattacharya, Dipten
Iles, Gail N
Ghosh, Barnali
Prytuliak, Anastasiia A
Malard, Benoit
Das, Gopes C
Ouladdiaf, B
Chatterji, T
 
Subject Electronics
 
Description Using high resolution powder neutron diffraction data, we show that there is a distinct anomaly in the structural noncentrosymmetry around the magnetic transition point T-N for bulk and nanoscale BiFeO3. It appears that the structural noncentrosymmetry - which gives rise to the ferroelectric polarization - is suppressed anomalously by similar to 1% (of the average noncentrosymmetry at above the magnetic transition) in the bulk sample and by similar to 12% in the nanoscale sample as the magnetic transition is approached from higher temperature. This observation shows that the multiferroic coupling improves in the nanoscale sample which is expected to brighten the application prospects of nanoscale BiFeO3 in nanospintronics-based sensor devices.
 
Publisher Cambridge University Press
 
Date 2013-09
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://cgcri.csircentral.net/2484/1/sudipta.pdf
Goswami, Sudipta and Bhattacharya, Dipten and Iles, Gail N and Ghosh, Barnali and Prytuliak, Anastasiia A and Malard, Benoit and Das, Gopes C and Ouladdiaf, B and Chatterji, T (2013) Anomaly in structural noncentrosymmetry around T-N in bulk and nanoscale BiFeO3. Powder Diffraction, 28 (2). S94-S105. ISSN 0885-7156
 
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