title: High pressure and multiferroics materials: a happy marriage.
abstract: The community of material scientists is strongly committed to the research area of multiferroic materials, both for the understanding of the complex mechanisms supporting the multiferroism and for the fabrication of new compounds, potentially suitable for technological applications. The use of high pressure is a powerful tool in synthesizing new multiferroic, in particular magneto-electric phases, where the pressure stabilization of otherwise unstable perovskite-based structural distortions may lead to promising novel metastable compounds. The in situ investigation of the high-pressure behavior of multiferroic materials has provided insight into the complex interplay between magnetic and electronic properties and the coupling to structural instabilities.
authors.affiliation: IMEM-CNR, Area delle Scienze 37/A, Parma 43124, Italy.
authors.forename: Edmondo
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gilioli
authors.affiliation: Mineral Physics Institute, Stony Brook University , 255 Earth and Space Science Building, Stony Brook, NY 11794-2100, USA ; Photon Sciences Directorate, Brookhaven National Laboratory , 75 Brookhaven Avenue, Upton, NY 11973-500, USA.
authors.forename: Lars
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ehm
keywords: high pressure; materials science; multiferroics