Synthesis
Multiferroics properties can appear in a large variety of materials. Therefore, several routes for conventional material fabrication are being applied. Popular techniques within the multiferroic community are: solid state synthesis, hydrothermal synthesis, sol-gel processing, vacuum based deposition, and floating zone.
However some types of multiferroics require specific processing conditions within certain techniques. For instance:
- Vacuum based deposition (for instance: MBE, PLD) for thin film deposition to exploit certain advantages that may come with 2-dimensional layered structures such as: strain mediated multiferroics, heterostructures, anisotropy.
- High pressure solid state synthesis to stabilize metastable or highly distorted structures as for example lone pair multiferroics like Bi based multiferroics due to their low melting point.
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