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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL NANOSCIENCE
Volume 8, Issue 3, Pages 261-266Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/17458080.2012.666808
Keywords
multiferroic; phonon mode; leakage current density; magnetisation
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- University of Delhi
- DST
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Enhancement of magnetic and electric properties in multiferroic Mn-substituted BiFeO3 thin films (BiFe1 x Mn x O3 with x=0.000.05) grown via the low-temperature chemical solution deposition process on low-cost substrates like indium tin oxide (ITO)/glass and silicon is reported in this work. A detailed structural analysis by high-resolution X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy indicates that the grown films exhibit rhombohedral distorted perovskite structure without any impure phase. Raman spectroscopic analysis shows all 13 Raman active (4A1+9E) phonon modes corresponding to distorted rhombohedral BFO R3c structure. BFO thin film with 5% Mn substitution showed maximum saturation and remnant magnetisation (M s=16.70emu/g and M r=2.58emu/g) and remarkably reduced leakage current due to distortion in the spin cycloid structure and suppression of oxygen vacancies due to partial replacement of Fe3+ ion by Mn3+ ion, respectively. These enhanced multifunctional properties highlight the potential applications of BFMO system in thin film devices which can couple magnetic and ferroelectric order parameters.
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