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Study of structural and magnetoelectric properties of 1−x(Ba0.96Ca0.04TiO3)–x(ZnFe2O4) ceramic composites

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Multiferroic ceramic composites of (1−x)Ba0.96Ca0.04TiO3–(x)ZnFe2O4 (BCT-ZF) were prepared from ferroelectric (FE) barium calcium titanate (BCT) and ferromagnetic (FM) zinc ferrite (ZF) by using the solid state reaction method with different mol% fractions of x (x = 0.1 and 0.2). The preliminary structural studies carried out by X-ray diffraction at room temperature reveals that the samples have a tetragonal structure along with the cubic spinel ferrite phase. Raman spectra of the composites also confirm the existence of BCT phase and ZF phase. The room temperature ferroelectric polarization measurements as a function of magnetic field show the existence strong magnetoelectric coupling of 10.85 (mV/(cm.Oe).

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Authors are grateful to the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Govt. of India, for financial support under the research project ERIP/ER/1303129/M/01/1564. The work at UPR is support by National Science Foundation (NSF DMR-1410869).

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    Madan Lal, Mamta Shandilya & Radheshyam Rai

  2. Department of Physics, Central University of Kerala, Kasaragod, 671314, India

    Ajith S. Kumar & Swapna S. Nair

  3. Department of Physics, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR, 00936, USA

    Ratnakar Palai

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Lal, M., Shandilya, M., Kumar, A.S. et al. Study of structural and magnetoelectric properties of 1−x(Ba0.96Ca0.04TiO3)–x(ZnFe2O4) ceramic composites. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 29, 80–85 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-017-7890-6

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