Self-Assembled Room Temperature Multiferroic BiFeO3-LiFe5O8 Nanocomposites

Sharma, Yogesh; Agarwal, Radhe; Collins, Liam; Zheng, Qiang; Ievlev, Anton V.; Hermann, Raphael P.; Cooper, Valentino R.; KC, Santosh; Ivanov, Ilia N.; Katiyar, Ram S.; Kalinin, Sergei V.; Lee, Ho Nyung; Hong, Seungbum; Ward, Thomas Z.

doi:10.1002/adfm.201906849

Title: Self-Assembled Room Temperature Multiferroic BiFeO₃-LiFe₅O₈ Nanocomposites

Journal Article · 24 October 2019 · Advanced Functional Materials

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201906849 · OSTI ID:1606993

^[1]; Agarwal, Radhe ^[2]; Collins, Liam ^[3]; Zheng, Qiang ^[4]; Ievlev, Anton V. ^[3]; Hermann, Raphael P. ^[1]; Cooper, Valentino R. ^[1]; KC, Santosh ^[1]; Ivanov, Ilia N. ^[3]; Katiyar, Ram S. ^[2]; Kalinin, Sergei V. ^[3]; Lee, Ho Nyung ^[1]; Hong, Seungbum ^[5];

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Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Materials Science & Technology Division
Univ. of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Science
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Materials Science & Technology Division; Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
Korea Advanced Inst. Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon (Korea, Republic of)

Multiferroic materials have driven significant research interest due to their promising technological potential. Developing new room-temperature multiferroics and understanding their fundamental properties are important to reveal unanticipated physical phenomena and potential applications. Here, a new room temperature multiferroic nanocomposite comprised of an ordered ferrimagnetic spinel α-LiFe₅O₈ (LFO) and a ferroelectric perovskite BiFeO₃ (BFO) is presented. It is observed that lithium (Li)-doping in BFO favors the formation of LFO spinel as a secondary phase during the synthesis of Li_xBi_1-xFeO₃ ceramics. Multimodal functional and chemical imaging methods are used to map the relationship between doping-induced phase separation and local ferroic properties in both the BFO-LFO composite ceramics and self-assembled nanocomposite thin films. The energetics of phase separation in Li doped BFO and the formation of BFO-LFO composites are supported by first principles calculations. These findings shed light on Li's role in the formation of a functionally important room temperature multiferroic and open a new approach in the synthesis of light element doped nanocomposites for future energy, sensing, and memory applications.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725; AC02‐05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1606993

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1571694

Journal Information:: Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 30, Issue 3; ISSN 1616-301X

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