Magnetic-Field Controllable Displacement-Type Ferroelectricity Driven by Off-Center Fe2+ Ions in CaFe3Ti4O12 Perovskite

  • Dabiao Lu
  • , Denis Sheptyakov
  • , Yingying Cao
  • , Haoting Zhao
  • , Jie Zhang
  • , Maocai Pi
  • , Xubin Ye
  • , Zhehong Liu
  • , Xueqiang Zhang
  • , Zhao Pan
  • , Xingxing Jiang
  • , Zhiwei Hu
  • , Yi feng Yang
  • , Pu Yu
  • , Youwen Long*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Displacement-type ferroelectrics usually exclude magnetic d-electron contribution. Applying a magnetic field thus can little change the electric polarization. Herein, a magnetic ionic driven displacement-type perovskite ferroelectric CaFe3Ti4O12 is reported. In this compound, magnetic Fe2+ ions contribute to both ferroelectric and antiferromagnetic orders respectively at TC ≈107 and TN ≈ 3.1 K, resulting in coupled electric and magnetic domains. A moderate magnetic field can induce a metamagnetic transition toward ferromagnetic correlations. External magnetic fields can thus readily tune the magnetic and the joint ferroelectric domains, giving rise to exceptional magnetic-field controllable displacement-type polarization with a large magnetoelectric (ME) coupling coefficient. This study opens up a new avenue to find unprecedented ME effects in displacement-type ferroelectrics for numerous applications.

Original languageEnglish
Article number2411133
JournalAdvanced Functional Materials
Volume34
Issue number52
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 23 Dec 2024
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • A-site ordered perovskite
  • displacement-type ferroelectric
  • high-pressure synthesis
  • magnetoelectric coupling

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