GENERAL ILL SEMINAR College Vb

Monday, April 16th, 2012 2:00 pm

Seminar Room - ILL 4 - 1st floor

Prof. Dr. Thomas T.M. Palstra

Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials - University of Groningen - The Netherlands

Multiferroics are based on simultaneous magnetic and polar order and have been widely studied in the transition metal oxides. They allow coupling of magnetic order with electric fields. Several mechanisms have been established that support such coexisting orders. I will discuss organic-inorganic hybrid systems, in which the inorganic component is responsible for the magnetic order-disorder and the organic component for the electric order-disorder. Such hybrid materials can be synthesized in bulk and thin film form and allow the design of various coexisting properties.

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