Electronic Band Structures and Phase Transitions of Ferroelectric and Multiferroic Oxides
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Abstract
Perovskite ferroelectric (FE) materials have attracted considerable attention for a wide range of applications, such as dynamic random access memories (DRAM), microwave tunable phase shifters and second harmonic generators (SHGs). [1–3] Moreover, materials that have coupled electric, magnetic, and structural order parameters that result in simultaneous ferroelectricity, ferromagnetism, and ferroelasticity are known as multiferroics. [4–6] These multiferroics materials have attracted a lot of attention in recent years because they can potentially offer a whole range of new applications, including nonvolatile ferroelectric memories, novel multiple state memories, and devices based on magnetoeletric effects. Although there are some reports on the electrical and magnetic properties of perovskite-type ferroelectric and multiferroics materials, optical properties and electronic transitions have not been well investigated up to now. On the other hand, phase transition is one of the important characteristics for the ferroelectric/multiferroics system. As we know, the phase transition is strongly related to the structural variation, which certainly can result in the electronic band modifications. Therefore, one can study the phase transition of the above material systems by the corresponding spectral response behavior at different temperatures.
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