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Low-temperature Magnetic Properties of 100- 110- and 111-crystal Oriented BiFeO3 Epitaxial Thin Film

Tahta Amrillah & Jen-Yih Juang

Received 4 Sep 2026, Published online: 31 Dec 2021

Published in Volume 1, Issue 2, 2021, pages 22-25

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Abstract

BiFeO3 (BFO) is extensively studied multiferroic material that possible to be integrated in next generation spintronics device. In this present research, BFO has been epitaxially grown on SrTiO3 (STO) substrates having various crystal orientations; (100), (110), and (111). We found that the lattice matching hold a pivotal factor in the epitaxial stabilization of BFO thin film. We also found that the magnetic properties of BFO thin film having various crystal orientations at below room temperature are different due to several reason, such as strain effect and crystal orientations.

Keywords

  • Multiferroic
  • Spintronics
  • Epitaxy
  • Thin-film
  • Magnetic

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Tahta Amrillah, T. A., & Jen-Yih Juang, J. Y. J. (2021). Low-temperature Magnetic Properties of 100- 110- and 111-crystal Oriented BiFeO3 Epitaxial Thin Film. Journal of Magnetism and Its Applications, 1(2), 22-25.

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Low-temperature Magnetic Properties of 100- 110- and 111-crystal Oriented BiFeO3 Epitaxial Thin Film. (2021). Journal of Magnetism and Its Applications, 1(2), 22-25. https://jourmag.org/index.php/jma/article/view/12