Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2011-05-10
Physical Review Letters 107, 057601 (2011)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
Submitted
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.057601
We present an ab initio study of the BFCO solid solution formed by multiferroics BiFeO3 (BFO) and BiCoO3 (BCO). We find that BFCO presents a strongly discontinuous morphotropic transition between BFO-like and BCO-like ferroelectric phases. Further, for all compositions such phases remain (meta)stable and retain well-differentiated properties. Our results thus suggest that an electric field can be used to switch between these structures, and show that such a switching involves large phase-change effects of various types, including piezoelectric, electric, and magnetoelectric ones.
Diéguez Oswaldo
Íñiguez Jorge
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