American Institute of Physics, Applied Physics Letters, 7(90), p. 072903
DOI: 10.1063/1.2539575
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Epitaxial thin films of Bi2NiMnO6 were synthesized on SrTiO3 substrates by pulsed laser deposition. The resulting film had the rock-salt-type arrangement of Ni2+ and Mn4+ ions in a double-perovskite unit cell. The films clearly showed multiferroic properties, both ferromagnetic behavior with a Curie temperature of about 100 K and ferroelectric behavior with a saturated polarization of about 5 muC/cm2.