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2 PublicationsMagnetoelectric coupling in a frustrated spinel studied using high-field scanning probe microscopy
Rossi, L.; Brüning, D.; Ueda, H.; Scurschii, I.; Lorenz, T.; Bryant, B.
Below its Neél temperature, the frustrated magnet CdCr2O4 exhibits an antiferromagnetic spin-spiral ground state. Such states can give rise to a sizable magnetoelectric coupling. In this report, we measure the electric polarization induced in single-crystalline CdCr2O4 by large applied magnetic field. Because the detection of a macroscopic polarization is hindered by the structural domains in the tetragonal spin-spiral phase, we have pioneered an alternative method of measuring polarization induced by high magnetic fields, using electrostatic force microscopy. This method enables us to measure polarization from nanoscale areas of the sample surface, as well as imaging how charge inhomogeneities change with magnetic field.
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Applied Physics Letters 116(2020), 262901
DOI: 10.1063/5.0003488
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arXiv:1912.12853 [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.12853
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