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Magnetoelectric coupling in complex systems
Coupling ferromagnatism and ferroelectriocity in a single phase material at or near room temperature has significant potential for the development of hybrid memory combining the... -
Muon Study of Ion-diffusion in a Novel Sodium Battery Material
Lithium (Li) ion batteries is the most common battery technology but lately also sodium (Na) batteries are being considered. One reason is that the Li-reserves are limited and... -
A quantitative understanding of magneto-electrical coupling in the multiferro...
The multiferroic (type II) compound, CoCr2O4 undergoes a spiral magnetic ordering and concomitant ferroelectric transition at the spiral ordering temperature (26.3 K). The... -
The 400 meV excitation in LSCO and its doping dependence
Neutron scattering techniques at the time-of-flight spectrometers at ISIS have shown that there is a well defined excitation with an energy of about 400 meV in YBCO. A similar... -
Structures and compositions of Li-conducting framework materials with low sym...
Re-chargeable Li ion batteries play a key role in modern consumer electronics and may have an important part to play as energy storage devices in a low carbon economy of the... -
Structural and magnetic characterisation of polar magnetic perovskite-based m...
A new generation of low-power high-density information storage would be enabled by the development of ?multiferroic? materials which function at or above room temperature. Such... -
Phonon Anomalies in YMnO3 at High Temperature
The reported structural phase transition in YMnO3 from P63cm to P63/mmc space group occurs at 1258 ±14 K. For low temperature phase (space group P63cm) the phonon modes are... -
Inelastic neutron scattering and µSR studies for the tetragonal layered compo...
Recently discovered tetragonal compounds CeRu2M2X (M=Al and Ga, X=B and C) provide new opportunity to investigate ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic ordering in the same... -
Nuclear and magnetic structures at the morphotropic phase boundary in the mag...
We are investigating the design and synthesis of new Pb-free ferroelectrics that also offer long-range magnetic ordering at high temperatures by appropriate compositional...