Effect of Nonmagnetic Ion Substitution on Multiferroic Properties of BiFeO3

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BiFeO3 is a ferroelectric and antiferromagnetic material at room temperature. In contrast to the weak ferromagnetism anticipated below TN = 640 K, it exhibits no macroscopic moment due to a cycloidal spin ordering. This study attempts to perturb the cycloidal spin ordering and improve the multiferroic properties by substitutions of Al and Sc at Fe site. The compounds BiFe1−xAlxO3 (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.3) and BiFe1−xScxO3 (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.2), synthesized at high pressures and temperatures, crystallize with perovskite structure in polar space group R3c. With increasing Al/Sc concentration, the compounds undergo marked changes in magnetic properties. While Al-substituted compounds were lossy and exhibited a Maxwell–Wagner effect, the Sc-substituted compounds exhibited ferroelectricity at room temperature.

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A.S. would like to acknowledge financial support from the Science and Engineering Board (SERB Sanction No. CRG/2018/000520), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India.

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Mandal, P., Sundaresan, A. Effect of Nonmagnetic Ion Substitution on Multiferroic Properties of BiFeO3. Journal of Elec Materi (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-020-08675-w

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Keywords

  • Perovskite
  • high-pressure synthesis
  • multiferroics
  • Maxwell–Wagner relaxation
  • ferroelectric