Mesoscopic Phenomena in Multifunctional Materials Synthesis, Characterization, Modeling and Applications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Saxena, Avadh (Editor), Planes, Antoni (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Springer Series in Materials Science, 198
• Subjects: Materials science.; Nanochemistry.; Nanoscale science.; Nanoscience.; Nanostructures.; Physics.; Structural materials.; Nanotechnology.; Materials Science.; Structural Materials.; Nanoscale Science and Technology.; Applied and Technical Physics.

A highly coveted objective of modern materials science is to optimize multiple coupled functionalities in the same single phase material and control the cross-response via multiple external fields. One important example of such multi-functionality are multiferroic materials where two or more ferroic...

Table of Contents:

• Multiferroics and multifunctionality: general aspects
• Electronic structure of multifunctional materials
• Thermodynamics of multiferroic-multifunctional materials
• Multifunctional nanoscale materials
• Multifunctional effects at interfaces
• Nanoscale phase transitions in multifunctional materials
• Room temperature multiferroics
• Spiral domains in multiferroics
• Morphotropic boundaries, domains and vortices in multiferroics
• Characterization of multifunctional thin films
• Modeling of the magneto-structural interplay
• Multifuctionality in glassy systems
• Multiscale numerical simulations
• High resolution imaging techniques
• Techniques for observing multifunctional domain walls
• Device applications of multifunctional materials.