Session P10: Focus Session: Multiferroics II
8:00 AM–10:48 AM, Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Room: 304
Sponsoring Unit:
FIAP
Chair: Serge Nakhmanson, Argonne National Laboratory
Abstract ID: BAPS.2009.MAR.P10.9
Abstract: P10.00009 : Ideal Nanocheckerboard $BiFeO_3-BiMnO_3$ from First Principles
10:00 AM–10:12 AM
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Authors:
Lucia Palova
(Rutgers University)
Karin Rabe
(Rutgers University)
Premala Chandra
(Rutgers University)
Motivated by recent nanocheckerboard patternings of oxide materials, we use first principles calculations to characterize a prototypical atomic-scale checkerboard of $BiFeO_3-BiMnO_3$ and to compare its properties to those of its bulk constituents. We find this checkerboard has a multiferroic ground state with nonzero ferroelectric polarization and a nonzero magnetic moment, thereby combining desirable features of bulk $BiFeO_3$ and $BiMnO_3$. Unlike either of its parent compounds, structural distortion of the checkerboard stabilizes different magnetic states; this magnetostructural effect can be used to switch between states with zero and nonzero magnetization. The role of oxygen-octahedron rotations and strain in the magnetic ordering of the nanocheckerboard will be examined in detail.
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