000872530 001__ 872530 000872530 005__ 20250129094155.0 000872530 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.3.124405 000872530 0247_ $$2Handle$$a2128/23790 000872530 0247_ $$2altmetric$$aaltmetric:72850144 000872530 0247_ $$2WOS$$aWOS:000502803200003 000872530 037__ $$aFZJ-2020-00050 000872530 082__ $$a530 000872530 1001_ $$0P:(DE-HGF)0$$aGuo, H.$$b0 000872530 245__ $$aMultiferroic properties of melanothallite Cu 2 OCl 2 000872530 260__ $$aCollege Park, MD$$bAPS$$c2019 000872530 3367_ $$2DRIVER$$aarticle 000872530 3367_ $$2DataCite$$aOutput Types/Journal article 000872530 3367_ $$0PUB:(DE-HGF)16$$2PUB:(DE-HGF)$$aJournal Article$$bjournal$$mjournal$$s1578399096_27693 000872530 3367_ $$2BibTeX$$aARTICLE 000872530 3367_ $$2ORCID$$aJOURNAL_ARTICLE 000872530 3367_ $$00$$2EndNote$$aJournal Article 000872530 520__ $$aHere we report on P−E hysteresis loop measurements that unravel the ferroelectric nature of melanothallite Cu2OCl2, a new multiferroic material with high critical temperature. Its spin structure was investigated by polarized and unpolarized neutron scattering experiments which reveal a cycloidal magnetic structure with vector chirality (magnetic polarity) that can be inverted by opposite poling of the sample with an inverted electric field. This shows that Cu2OCl2 is a spin-induced ferroelectric material. Finally, we show that the ferroelectric properties of Cu2OCl2 are driven by the inverse Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction mechanism which is also able to predict the observed direction of the ferroelectric polarization properly. 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