Recently, multiferroics-defined as materials with coexistence of at least two of the ferroelectric, ferroelastic and ferromagnetic effects-have attracted enormous research activities. In this thesis, the structure and properties of multiferrioic BiFeO3-x%PbTiO3 and Fe-x%Ga crystalline solutions were investigated.
First, the results show that modified BiFeO3-PbTiO3 based ceramics have significantly enhanced multiferroic properties, relative to BiFeO3 single crystals. The data reveal: (i) a dramatic increase in the induced polarization; and (ii) the establishment of a remnant magnetization by a breaking of the translational invariance of a long-period cycloidal spin structure, via substituent effects. In addition, temperature dependent magnetic permeability investigations of BiFeO3-xPbTiO3 crystalline solutions have shown that aliovalent La substitution results in a significant increase in the permeability.
Second, room temperature high-resolution neutron and x-ray diffraction studies have been performed on Fe-x%Ga crystals for 12<x<25at%. It has been observed that the structures of both Fe-12%Ga and Fe-25%Ga are tetragonal; however, near the phase boundary between them, an averaged-cubic structure was identified. In addition, an unusual splitting along the transverse direction indicates that the crystals are structurally inhomogeneous. / Master of Science
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/33854 |
| Date | 20 July 2005 |
| Creators | Wang, Naigang |
| Contributors | Materials Science and Engineering, Viehland, Dwight D., Reynolds, William T. Jr., Li, Jie-Fang |
| Publisher | Virginia Tech |
| Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | In Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Relation | Thesis-naigang-wang.pdf |
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