Atypical multiferroicity of HoCrO<sub>3</sub> in bulk and film geometry

Arijit Ghosh, Arun K. Pal, K. Dey, S. Majumdar, S. Giri

Journal of Materials Chemistry C · 2015 · 56 citations · 30 references

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Abstract

We report ferroelectricity in antiferromagnetic HoCrO<sub>3</sub> with a reasonably large value of spontaneous electric, which appears due to structural transition from <italic>Pbnm</italic> to nonsymmetric <italic>Pna</italic>2<sub>1</sub> space group.

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