%0 Journal Article
%A Rushchanskii, K.
%A Kamba, S.
%A Goian, V.
%A Vanek, P.
%A Savinov, M.
%A Prokleska, J.
%A Nuzhnyy, D.
%A Knizek, K.
%A Laufek, F.
%A Eckel, S.
%A Lamoreaux, S.K.
%A Sushkov, A.O.
%A Lezaic, M.
%A Spaldin, N.A.
%T A multiferroic material to search for the permanent electric dipole moment of the electron
%J Nature materials
%V 9
%@ 1476-1122
%C Basingstoke
%I Nature Publishing Group
%M PreJuSER-13064
%P 649 - 654
%D 2010
%Z This work was supported by the US National Science Foundation under award number DMR-0940420 (NAS), by Yale University, by the Czech Science Foundation (project Nos. 202/09/0682 and AVOZ10100520) and by the Young Investigators Group Programme of the Helmholtz Association, Germany, contract VH-NG-409. We thank O. Pacherova, R. Krupkova and G. Urbanova for technical assistance and O. Sushkov for discussions.
%X We describe the first-principles design and subsequent synthesis of a new material with the specific functionalities required for a solid-state-based search for the permanent electric dipole moment of the electron. We show computationally that perovskite-structure europium barium titanate should exhibit the required large and pressure-dependent ferroelectric polarization, local magnetic moments and absence of magnetic ordering at liquid-helium temperature. Subsequent synthesis and characterization of Eu(0.5)Ba(0.5)TiO(3) ceramics confirm the predicted desirable properties.
%K J (WoSType)
%F PUB:(DE-HGF)16
%9 Journal Article
%$ pmid:20639893
%U <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000280245000021
%R 10.1038/nmat2799
%U https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/13064