title: Multiferroic Nanopatterned Hybrid Material with Room-Temperature Magnetic Switching of the Electric Polarization.
abstract: A nanopatterned hybrid layer is designed, wherein the electric polarization can be flipped at room temperature by a magnetic field aided by an electrical field. This is achieved by embedding ferromagnetic nanopillars in a continuous organic ferroelectric layer, and amplifying the magnetostriction-generated stress gradients by scaling down the supracrystalline cell of the material.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences, Université catholique de Louvain, Croix du Sud 1/L7.04.02, 1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
authors.forename: Ronggang
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cai
authors.affiliation: Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences, Université catholique de Louvain, Croix du Sud 1/L7.04.02, 1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
authors.forename: Vlad-Andrei
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Antohe
authors.affiliation: Center for Soft Condensed Matter Physics and Interdisciplinary Research, Soochow University, 215006, Suzhou, China.
authors.forename: Zhijun
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.affiliation: Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences, Université catholique de Louvain, Croix du Sud 1/L7.04.02, 1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
authors.forename: Bernard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Nysten
authors.affiliation: Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences, Université catholique de Louvain, Croix du Sud 1/L7.04.02, 1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
authors.forename: Luc
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Piraux
authors.affiliation: Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences, Université catholique de Louvain, Croix du Sud 1/L7.04.02, 1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
authors.forename: Alain M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Jonas
keywords: ferroelectric polymers; ferroelectricity; magnetoelectricity; multiferroism