Multiferroic Materials

<p>a very detailed book on multiferroics that will be useful for PhD students and researchers interested in this emerging field of materials science </p><p>—Dr. Wilfrid Prellier Research Director CNRS Caen France</p><p></p><p>Multiferroics has emerged as one of the hottest topics in solid state physics in this millennium. The coexistence of multiple ferroic/antiferroic properties makes them useful both for fundamental studies and practical applications such as revolutionary new memory technologies and next-generation spintronics devices. This book provides an historical introduction to the field followed by a summary of recent progress in single-phase multiferroics (type-I and type-II) multiferroic composites (bulk and nano composites) and emerging areas such as domain walls and vortices. Each chapter addresses potential technological implications. There is also a section dedicated to theoretical approaches both phenomenological and first-principles calculations. </p>