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The Dice - Stone Der Würfelstein: Some Personal Souvenirs Around the Discovery of the First Ferromagnetic Ferroelectric
- Source :
- Ferroelectrics, Vol. 427, No 1 (2012) pp. 1-33
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2012.
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Abstract
- Historical flashlights are presented on the real life background of the discovery in 1964 of the first ferromagnetic/ferroelectric single crystalline material, Nickel Iodine Boracite. The subsequent stony trail until support for scientific follow-up, finally obtained in 1978, is summarised. Leaving out intermediate research milestones, the present day state-of-the-art is succinctly resumed, culminating in the insight that a variety of boracite phases are ferroelastic, ferroelectric, ferromagnetic and ferrotoroidic in the same phase, representing herewith useful model substances for studying a high degree of multiferroic complexity.
- Subjects :
- Materials science
Ferroelectric materials
Condensed matter physics
History (discovery of first ferromagnetic ferroelec.)
Nanotechnology
Condensed Matter Physics
Crystals
Ferroelectricity
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Ferromagnetism
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Ferromagnetic materials
Multiferroics
Boracite
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Details
- ISSN :
- 15635112 and 00150193
- Volume :
- 427
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Ferroelectrics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....562b2ddd629c55792647c0b1be63f339