Self-assembled multiferroic nanostructures in the CoFe2O4-PbTiO3 system

Jianhua Li, Igor Levin, Julia Slutsker, Virgil Provenzano, Peter K. Schenck, R. Ramesh, Jun Ouyang, A. L. Roytburd

Applied Physics Letters · 2005 · 112 citations · 11 references

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Abstract

The effect of substrate orientation on the morphologies of epitaxial self-assembled nanostructures was demonstrated using multiferroic 0.67PbTiO3-0.33CoFe2O4 thin films. The two-phase composite films were grown by pulsed laser deposition on single crystal SrTiO3 substrates having (001) and (110) orientations. The nanostructures of both orientations consisted of vertical rod- or platelet-like columns of CoFe2O4 dispersed in a PbTiO3 matrix. For the (001) orientation the platelet habits were parallel to the {110} planes, whereas for the (110) orientation the platelets were parallel to the {111} planes. The differences were explained using a thermodynamic theory of heterophase structures.

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