《Multiferroics Past》.pdf

Multiferroics: Past, present, and future Nicola A. Spaldin, SangWook Cheong, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh Citation: Phys. Today 63(10), 38 (2010); doi: 10.1063/1.3502547 View online: /10.1063/1.3502547 View Table of Contents: /resource/1/PHTOAD/v63/i10 Published by the American Institute of Physics. Additional resources for Physics Today Homepage: / Information: /about_us Daily Edition: /daily_edition Downloaded 01 Jun 2012 to 6. Redistribution subject to AIP license or copyright; see /about_us/terms Multiferroics: Past, present, and future Nicola A. Spaldin, Sang-Wook Cheong, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh feature Working in concert, theorists and experimentalists have found promising new ways to get two traditional foes—ferroelectricity and magnetism— to coexist. Nicola Spaldin is a professor in the materials department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Sang-Wook Cheong is a professor in the department of physics and astronomy at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey. Ramamoorthy Ramesh is a professor in the department of materials science and engineering and the department of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. The interplay between electricity and magnetism has fas- tricity with ferromagnetism or, more loosely, with any kind cinated scientists and engineers for centuries, ever since Hans of magnetism. The terminology is often extended to include Christian Oersted noticed in 1820, quite by accident, that a composites, such as heterostructures of ferroelectrics inter- magnetic compass needle deflected when he switched the layered with magnetic materials. current in a nearby battery on or off. Over the 40 years