Heroic multiferroics

Heroic Medicine

Nearly 60 years after he died, surgeons from around the world still honour the memory of Sir Robert Jones, the father of modern British orthopaedics. Sir Robert lived and worked at a time when crippled children were a common sight on Britain's streets, and one of his greatest achievements was to show that many of these children-the victims chiefly of tuberculosis, rickets, and poliomyelitis-cou...

Multiferroics : Past , present , and future

© 2010 American Institute of Physics, S-0031-9228-1010-020-9 The interplay between electricity and magnetism has fascinated scientists and engineers for centuries, ever since Hans Christian Oersted noticed in 1820, quite by accident, that a magnetic compass needle deflected when he switched the current in a nearby battery on or off. Over the 40 years or so following Oersted’s observation, the c...

The sensitive moments of multiferroics

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS Generating new information from the web Easy multiferroics New clues on organic superconductors Lasers pushing the limits X-rays play the right hand An open-and-shut case Miniscule nuclear molecules Right on target A four-dimensional picture of our three-dimensional world Closing the gap in understanding a broken symmetry Twisting around the palladium Zirconium takes the str...

Electromagnon excitations in canted-spin multiferroics

An organic approach for nanostructured multiferroics.

Multiferroics are materials that simultaneously exhibit more than one ferroic order parameters, such as ferroelectricity, ferroelasticity and ferromagnetism. Recently, multiferroicity has received a significant revival of interest due to the colossal magnetoelectric coupling effect for the development of nano-ferronics. In this mini-review, we focus on a recent study of ferroelectricity, magnet...