TY - JOUR
AU - Rushchanskii, K.
AU - Kamba, S.
AU - Goian, V.
AU - Vanek, P.
AU - Savinov, M.
AU - Prokleska, J.
AU - Nuzhnyy, D.
AU - Knizek, K.
AU - Laufek, F.
AU - Eckel, S.
AU - Lamoreaux, S.K.
AU - Sushkov, A.O.
AU - Lezaic, M.
AU - Spaldin, N.A.
TI - A multiferroic material to search for the permanent electric dipole moment of the electron
JO - Nature materials
VL - 9
SN - 1476-1122
CY - Basingstoke
PB - Nature Publishing Group
M1 - PreJuSER-13064
SP - 649 - 654
PY - 2010
N1 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - J (WoSType)
LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6 - pmid:20639893
UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000280245000021
DO - DOI:10.1038/nmat2799
UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/13064
ER -