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Novel vertically aligned nanocomposite of Bi2WO6-Co3O4 with room-temperature multiferroic and anisotropic optical response

Show Author's Information Leigang Li1,§,  Shikhar Misra1,§,  Xingyao Gao1,  Juncheng Liu1,  Han Wang1,  Jijie Huang1,  Bruce Zhang2,  Ping Lu3,  Haiyan Wang1,2( )
School of Materials Engineering Purdue UniversityWest LafayetteIndiana 47907 USA
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue UniversityWest LafayetteIndiana 47907 USA
Sandia National LaboratoryAlbuquerqueNew Mexico 87185 USA

§ Leigang Li and Shikhar Misra contributed equally to this work.

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A new vertically aligned nanocomposite (VAN) structure based on two-dimensional (2D) layered oxides has been designed and self-assembled on both LaAlO3 (001) and SrTiO3 (001) substrates. The new VAN structure consists of epitaxially grown Co3O4 nanopillars embedded in the Bi2WO6 matrix with a unique 2D layered structure, as evidenced by the microstructural analysis. Physical property measurements show that the new Bi2WO6-Co3O4 VAN structure exhibits strong ferromagnetic and piezoelectric response at room temperature as well as anisotropic permittivity response. This work demonstrates a new approach in processing multifunctional VANs structure based on the layered oxide systems towards future nonlinear optics, ferromagnets, and multiferroics.


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Novel vertically aligned nanocomposite of Bi2WO6-Co3O4 with room-temperature multiferroic and anisotropic optical response

Show Author's information Leigang Li1,§, Shikhar Misra1,§, Xingyao Gao1, Juncheng Liu1, Han Wang1, Jijie Huang1, Bruce Zhang2, Ping Lu3, Haiyan Wang1,2( )
School of Materials Engineering Purdue UniversityWest LafayetteIndiana 47907 USA
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue UniversityWest LafayetteIndiana 47907 USA
Sandia National LaboratoryAlbuquerqueNew Mexico 87185 USA

§ Leigang Li and Shikhar Misra contributed equally to this work.

Abstract

A new vertically aligned nanocomposite (VAN) structure based on two-dimensional (2D) layered oxides has been designed and self-assembled on both LaAlO3 (001) and SrTiO3 (001) substrates. The new VAN structure consists of epitaxially grown Co3O4 nanopillars embedded in the Bi2WO6 matrix with a unique 2D layered structure, as evidenced by the microstructural analysis. Physical property measurements show that the new Bi2WO6-Co3O4 VAN structure exhibits strong ferromagnetic and piezoelectric response at room temperature as well as anisotropic permittivity response. This work demonstrates a new approach in processing multifunctional VANs structure based on the layered oxide systems towards future nonlinear optics, ferromagnets, and multiferroics.

Keywords: Bi2WO6, multiferroics, Co3O4, vertically aligned nanocomposite (VAN), Aurivillius oxides, layered oxides

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Received: 16 January 2021
Revised: 24 February 2021
Accepted: 26 February 2021
Published: 14 June 2021
Issue date: December 2021

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This work is supported by the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR, N00014-20-1-2600). The high-resolution TEM/STEM characterization at Purdue University is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (Nos. DMR-1565822 and DMR- 2016453). Sandia National Laboratories is a multi-program laboratory managed and operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, L. L. C., a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International, Inc., for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-NA0003525. This paper describes objective technical results and analysis. Any subjective views or opinions that might be expressed in the paper do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Department of Energy or the United States Government.

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