Charged Domain Wall and Polar Vortex Topologies in a Room-Temperature Magnetoelectric Multiferroic Thin Film

Moore, Kalani; O’Connell, Eoghan N.; Griffin, Sinéad M.; Downing, Clive; Colfer, Louise; Schmidt, Michael; Nicolosi, Valeria; Bangert, Ursel; Keeney, Lynette; Conroy, Michele

doi:10.1021/acsami.1c17383

Title: Charged Domain Wall and Polar Vortex Topologies in a Room-Temperature Magnetoelectric Multiferroic Thin Film

Journal Article · 19 January 2022 · ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c17383 · OSTI ID:1841031

^[1]; O’Connell, Eoghan N. ^[1]; Griffin, Sinéad M. ^[2]; Downing, Clive ^[3]; Colfer, Louise ^[4]; Schmidt, Michael ^[4];

^[5]; Bangert, Ursel ^[1];

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Department of Physics, Bernal Institute, School of Natural Sciences, University of Limerick, Limerick V94 T9PX, Ireland
Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
Advanced Microscopy Laboratory & AMBER, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin D02 PN40, Ireland
Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, Cork T12 R5CP, Ireland
Advanced Microscopy Laboratory & AMBER, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin D02 PN40, Ireland, School of Chemistry, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin D02 PN40, Ireland
Department of Physics, Bernal Institute, School of Natural Sciences, University of Limerick, Limerick V94 T9PX, Ireland, Department of Materials, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2AZ, U.K., London Centre for Nanotechnology, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2AZ, U.K.

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