Realization of Giant Magnetoelectricity in Helimagnets
- Authors
- Chun, Sae Hwan; Chai, Yi Sheng; Oh, Yoon Seok; Jaiswal-Nagar, Deepshikha; Haam, So Young; Kim, Ingyu; Lee, Bumsung; Nam, Dong Hak; Ko, Kyung-Tae; Park, Jae-Hoon; Chung, Jae-Ho; Kim, Kee Hoon
- Issue Date
- 22-Jan-2010
- Publisher
- AMER PHYSICAL SOC
- Citation
- PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, v.104, no.3
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
- Volume
- 104
- Number
- 3
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/117143
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.037204
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- Abstract
- We show that low field magnetoelectric (ME) properties of helimagnets Ba0.5Sr1.5Zn2(Fe1-xAlx)(12)O-22 can be efficiently tailored by the Al-substitution level. As x increases, the critical magnetic field for switching electric polarization is systematically reduced from similar to 1 T down to similar to 1 mT, and the ME susceptibility is greatly enhanced to reach a giant value of 2.0 x 10(4) ps/m at an optimum x = 0.08. We find that control of the nontrivial orbital moment in the octahedral Fe sites through the Al substitution is crucial for fine-tuning the magnetic anisotropy and obtaining the conspicuously improved ME characteristics.
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