Ferroelectricity and multiferroicity: Broader way to go beyond
Ferroelectrics and magnetics represent two major classes of functional materials which people find everywhere in daily life,though they are usually beyond the views of people and hidden inside the hearts of most devices.While spintronics [1] comes into being,reviving magnetism which has been as old as ferroelectricity,since decades ago the physics of ferroelectrics has turned its attention to the domain scale from the atomic level at which the physics was believed to be well understood [2].As is well known,it is a small world,and ferroelectricity finally has its marriage with magnetism at a proper time [3],giving birth to multiferroicity,a concurrent and aggressive field of condensed matter physics where both ferroelectricity and magnetism can find their fans [4].Consequently,multiferroicity bridges ferroelectricity and magnetism in an extraordinary manner,generating a number of novel phenomena and raising a pocket of key issues.
condensed matter physics、functional materials、atomic level、small world
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O4(物理学)
2012-12-10（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）
373-374
