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American Institute of Physics, Applied Physics Letters, 18(107), p. 182906

DOI: 10.1063/1.4935097

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Coexisting ferroelectric and magnetic morphotropic phase boundaries in Dy-modified BiFeO3-PbTiO3 multiferroics

Journal article published in 2015 by Jian Zhuang, Lun-Wei Su, Hua Wu, Alexei A. Bokov ORCID, Ming Liu ORCID, Wei Ren, Zuo-Guang Ye
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Abstract

Morphotropic phase boundary (MPB) in ferroelectric solid solutions can significantly enhance the dielectric and piezoelectric performances of the materials. Similarly, magnetic MPB has been found to exist in a few ferromagnets and is proved to be greatly beneficial to the magnetostrictive response. In this letter, we report the finding of a magnetic MPB in the multiferroic 0.66Bi1-xDyxFeO3-0.34PbTiO3 system, which overlaps the structural MPB of ferroelectric phases. A (weak) ferromagnetic state is induced at room temperature by Dy for the rhombohedral compositions with x ≥ 0.10. Upon cooling down from room temperature, the tetragonal compositions (x ≤ 0.05) show only one magnetic phase transition from the paramagnetic to antiferromagnetic phase, while the rhombohedral compositions exhibit a series of magnetic phase transitions from the (weak) ferromagnetic state to an antiferromagnetic order then to another weak ferromagnetic phase. A magneto-structural phase diagram has been established that reveals the presence of a magnetic MPB and a ferroelectric MPB. More significantly, the ferroelectric and magnetic MPB regions are found to overlap with each other, pointing to interesting kinds of multiferroic couplings.