Locating the elusive: Scientists observe how material at room temperature exhibits 'multiferroic' properties
Monday, August 22, 2011 - 09:31
in Physics & Chemistry
German researchers at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) in close collaboration with colleagues in France and UK, have engineered a material that exhibits a rare and versatile trait in magnetism at room temperature. It's called a "multiferroic," and it means that the material has properties allowing it to be both electrically charged (ferroelectric) and also the ability to be magnetic (ferromagnetic), with its magnetisation controlled by electricity.