Spin-glass behavior of nanocrystalline multiferroic bismuth ferrite lead titanate
Vladimir Tuboltsev,Alexander Savin,Wataru Sakamoto,Atsushi Hieno,Toshinobu Yogo,Jyrki Räisänen
Journal of Materials Chemistry Pub Date : 11/04/2010 00:00:00 , DOI:10.1039/C0JM02273J
Abstract

Multiferroic bismuth ferrite lead titanate exhibiting both ferroelectricity and ferromagnetism in a single perovskite phase has been chemically synthesized in the form of nanocrystalline films with large surface/interface to volume atomic ratio. The films show both electric polarization and magnetization hysteresis loops and demonstrate behavior consistent with the existence of a spin-glass state at temperatures well above the room temperature. Anomalous magnetic properties and glassy dynamics are associated with a high degree of magnetic frustration and disorder due to the spatial confinement in nanosized crystalline grains, random distribution of anisotropy axes in the grains, inter-grain interaction and the effects of uncompensated spins on the large effective surface and interface favored by the nanocrystalline morphology of the films.

Graphical abstract: Spin-glass behavior of nanocrystalline multiferroic bismuth ferrite lead titanate