Research Thrust 1
Magnetoelectric Effects in Perovskite Complex Metal Oxides
Objectives: To explore Complex Metal Oxides (CMO) for the discovery of new physical phenomena and to gain insights into the science of strongly correlated electron materials, especially perovskite ferrites, cobaltites and manganites, via understanding their synthesis-microstructure-property relationships.
Faculty: UTRGV: Karen Martirosyan (lead), Yuanbing Mao, and Mircea Chipara; UMN: Chris Leighton and Bharat Jalan.
Fig. 9. (A) Magnetic hysteresis loop of HoMnO3 at 2K; (B) X-ray diffraction patterns of as-synthesized HoMnO3 and YMnO3 powders by CCSO; (C) SEM images of HoMnO3 particle size ~8nm and ~3 mm, respectively.
Fig. 10. TEM of (a) LNMO and (b) LCMO. Temperature dependence of imaginary component χ΄΄ of ac magnetic susceptibility (10 kHz) vs heating/cooling direction and field from corresponding (c) LNMO and (d) LCMO NPs.35