Recent Advances in Multiferroics and Magnetoelectric Materials
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2025 | Viewed by 92
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Interests: multiferroic and magnetoelectric materials; perovskites and delafossites; heusler alloys; magnetic and electric properties of ceramics and nanomaterials; Fe-Si steel; mössbauer spectroscopy
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Dear Colleagues,
Materials exhibiting magnetoelectric (ME) coupling have many potential applications in electronics/spintronics (hard drive data read/write heads, microvawe devices), metrology (high-sensitivity magnetic field sensors), renewable energy (photovoltaic cells, energy harvesters) and medicine (neurostimulators). ME coupling occurs in both single-phase materials (i.e., multiferroics) and composites with different connectivities. The transition from the conceptual to the implementation phase is hampered by several issues: (i) most multiferroics are characterized by weak ME coupling well below room temperature, (ii) the coupling is nonlinear and difficult to control, and (iii) the available measurement methods are often poorly implemented and susceptible to noise.
This Special Issue of Materials is devoted both to composites and single-phase materials, including lead-free materials. Our designated research goal is consistent with climate policy concerning, among others, energy transformation and environmental protection. Particular attention will be paid to synthesis methods and magnetoelectric coupling coefficient measurement methods that allow for the production of materials with reproducible structural and magnetoelectric properties. Authors are invited to contribute their original research articles,such as comparative study papers or review articles devoted to the above topic, especially those presenting new ideas in the field of single-phase multiferroics and magnetoelectric composites.
Prof. Dr. Elżbieta Jartych
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- multiferroic material
- magnetoelectric material
- magnetoelectric coupling coefficient
- lock-in technique
- dynamic method
- dielectric spectroscopy
- magneto-optic Kerr effect
- sawyer–tower circuit
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