Abstract
Magnetoelectric multiferroics are provoking much research activity for their potential applications in novel multifunctional devices. Compared with single-phase multiferroics, magnetoelectric composites have competitive advantages. The magnetoelectric coupling of composites is heavily influenced by composition and grain size. We prepared BFO/PZT composites with separate phases via the solid-state sintering method. We show that equal molar ratio composition has a better magnetoelectric coupling response than other compositions. The composites with nano bismuth ferrite have better magnetoelectric coupling performance, and these with both nano grain sizes present the highest magnetoelectric voltage coefficients (αE = 16.9 mV cm−1 Oe−1). The strain-mediated mechanism was confirmed via a comparison between strain response and polarization of nano/micro type composites with the composition of 3:7. We found that the magnetoelectric voltage coefficient αE positively correlates with strain response instead of polarization in BFO/PZT composites, which provides experimental evidence for the strain-mediated ME composite theory.
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