Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Applications of Strain-Coupled Magnetoelectric Composites

Journal Article · · Encyclopedia of Smart Materials
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4]
  1. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS); Louisiana State University and A&M College
  2. Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
  3. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS)
  4. National Physical Laboratory (CSIR), New Delhi (India)

This article deals with research, development and future directions of magnetoelectric composites for practical devices applications. In the past 20 years there has been a surge of research in the area of multiferroics (MF) and magnetoelectrics (ME) due to their potential to replace existing technologies based only on ferroelectric or ferromagnetic materials. Some of the magnetoelectric composites show exceptionally high potential in the area of magnetic field sensors, however, work remains before commercialization can be realized. The cross coupling among various ferroic parameters in magnetoelectric composites is several orders higher than single phase magetoelectrics, which make its favorable for low detection (nT or pT) magnetic field sensors. Advances in both layered structures or controlled three-dimensional matrix composites for applications as magnetoelectric nonvolatile memory elements are both required. Robust cross-coupling among various parameters with more than four logic states and its compatibility with complementary-symmetry metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) technology are the main requirements for heterostructure magnetoelectric thin films. The major hurdles in the area of magnetoelectric nonvolatile memory elements are poor interfacial properties and weak magnetoelectric coupling for high density fast read and write processes. Another potential area is strained coupled magneto-electric composites where magnetostriction mediated dimensional change in the magnetic layer effectively modulate the change in the dimension of piezoelectric layers via piezostriction, which leads to a strong ME coupling where their coupling magnitude is sufficient for magnetic field sensors. Energy harvesters based on magnetoelectric composites are also intriguing concepts to capture various types of waste energy, in the form mechanical vibration, pressure, wind energy, hydrothermal and waste temperature.

Research Organization:
Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0002136
OSTI ID:
1867231
Journal Information:
Encyclopedia of Smart Materials, Journal Name: Encyclopedia of Smart Materials Vol. 2021; ISSN 9999-0053
Publisher:
ElsevierCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (49)

Magnetoelectric Effects in Complex Oxides with Competing Ground States journal September 2009
Magnetoelectric Coupling Effects in Multiferroic Complex Oxide Composite Structures journal April 2010
Recent Progress in Multiferroic Magnetoelectric Composites: from Bulk to Thin Films journal February 2011
The Nature of Magnetoelectric Coupling in Pb(Zr,Ti)O 3 -Pb(Fe,Ta)O 3 journal September 2015
An in situ grown eutectic magnetoelectric composite material: Part I Composition and unidirectional solidification journal October 1974
A sintered magnetoelectric composite material BaTiO3-Ni(Co, Mn) Fe2O4 journal July 1978
AC conductivity and magnetoelectric effect in CuFe1.6Cr0.4O4–BaTiO3 composite ceramics journal June 2000
Artificial multiferroic heterostructures for an electric control of magnetic properties journal March 2015
Modeling, characterization and fabrication of vibration energy harvester using Terfenol-D/PZT/Terfenol-D composite transducer journal December 2009
Studies of Phase Transitions and Magnetoelectric Coupling in PFN-CZFO Multiferroic Composites journal January 2016
Why Are There so Few Magnetic Ferroelectrics? journal July 2000
Multiferroic magnetoelectric composite nanostructures journal April 2010
Multiferroic and magnetoelectric materials journal August 2006
Observation of ferrotoroidic domains journal October 2007
Multiferroics: a magnetic twist for ferroelectricity journal January 2007
Tunnel junctions with multiferroic barriers journal March 2007
Multiferroic memories journal March 2007
Robust isothermal electric control of exchange bias at room temperature journal June 2010
Understanding and designing magnetoelectric heterostructures guided by computation: progresses, remaining questions, and perspectives journal May 2017
Understanding the physical metallurgy of the CoCrFeMnNi high-entropy alloy: an atomistic simulation study journal January 2018
Advances in magnetoelectric multiferroics journal February 2019
Exploring the Magnetoelectric Coupling at the Composite Interfaces of FE/FM/FE Heterostructures journal November 2018
Studies of Multiferroic Palladium Perovskites journal February 2019
Correlation of dielectric, electrical and magnetic properties near the magnetic phase transition temperature of cobalt zinc ferrite journal January 2017
Exploring phase transitions and magnetoelectric coupling of epitaxial asymmetric multilayer heterostructures journal January 2020
Strong magnetic enhancement in self-assembled multiferroic-ferrimagnetic nanostructures journal January 2013
Artificial multiferroic heterostructures journal January 2013
Sur la symétrie dans les phénomènes physiques, symétrie d'un champ électrique et d'un champ magnétique journal January 1894
Ferrite-ferroelectric layered structures for electrically and magnetically tunable microwave resonators journal January 2006
Electric field tuning characteristics of a ferrite-piezoelectric microwave resonator journal April 2006
Multiferroic magnetoelectric composites: Historical perspective, status, and future directions journal February 2008
Investigations on electrical and magnetic properties of multiferroic [(1− x )Pb(Fe 0.5 Nb 0.5 )O 3x Ni 0.65 Zn 0.35 Fe 2 O 4 ] composites journal April 2013
Room temperature multiferroic properties of Pb(Fe 0.5 Nb 0.5 )O 3 –Co 0.65 Zn 0.35 Fe 2 O 4 composites journal December 2013
Studies on magnetoelectric coupling in PFN-NZFO composite at room temperature journal May 2014
Studies on structural, dielectric, and transport properties of Ni 0.65 Zn 0.35 Fe 2 O 4 journal June 2014
Multiferroic tunnel junction of Ni 50.3 Mn 36.9 Sb 12.8 /BiFeO 3 /Ni 50.3 Mn 36.9 Sb 12.8 for magneto-electric random access memory devices journal February 2016
Studies on dielectric, optical, magnetic, magnetic domain structure, and resistance switching characteristics of highly c-axis oriented NZFO thin films journal July 2017
Evidence of strong magneto-dielectric coupling and enhanced electrical insulation at room temperature in Nd and Mn co-doped bismuth ferrite journal October 2017
Room temperature multiferroicity and magnetodielectric coupling in 0–3 composite thin films journal May 2020
Magnetoelectric PZT/ferrite composite material journal January 1994
Multi-ferroic magnetoelectrics journal January 1994
Investigation of magnetoelectric interaction in composite journal December 1997
Revival of the magnetoelectric effect journal April 2005
Palladium-based ferroelectrics and multiferroics: Theory and experiment journal June 2017
Multiferroic BaTiO3-CoFe2O4 Nanostructures journal January 2004
Current Status of Magnetoelectric Composite Thin/Thick Films journal January 2012
Elastic strain engineering of ferroic oxides journal February 2014
Measurement Techniques of the Magneto-Electric Coupling in Multiferroics journal August 2017
Magnetoelectric Composites: Applications, Coupling Mechanisms, and Future Directions journal October 2020