Grant: Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Well-controlled electronic, magnetic, and spin-dependent transport in novel materials is of great interest for both technological applications as well as from a fundamental point of view. These parameters provide new opportunities to control their functional properties and to understand the origin of emerging phenomena in such materials. The interest in multiferroic materials is due to the coupling between multiple order parameters such as magnetization, ferroelectric polarization, and strain and lattice properties. The control of ferroelectricity via ferromagnetism and vice versa is an important tool for device applications such as spintronics, sensors and information storage. To use these materials in any future application, we need to: 1- Understand the multiferroic mechanism which can lead to the high ferroelectricity. 2- To develop appropriate techniques for determining the experimental evidence of magnetoelectric interactions and its strength. 3- Recreate multiferroic effects using thin film hetrostructures. My research group's projects are concentrating on several specific oxides such as spinal compound Fe(1-x)MnxAl2O4, CeCrO3,and perovskite, BiVO3 with different properties.