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Spectroscopic Techniques for Multiferroic Materials

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Today’s technological world is looking for multifunctional materials in which one parameter can be tuned by another or vice versa. Multiferroic materials, which have two or more ferroic order parameters present at the same time, are a viable candidate for this class of materials. Magnetoelectric multiferroic materials have an efficient connection between the magnetic and electric order characteristics, making them very attractive for nondestructive, low-power, high-density magnetically read, and electrically written memory components, magnetic sensors, and so on. However, in order to gain a better understanding of the origins of coexistence of two or more order parameters and magnetoelectric coupling in magnetoelectric multiferroic materials, it is necessary to probe the electronic properties and electronic band structures at the atomic level, as well as understand the bulk and surface band structures, occupied/unoccupied states, chemical state, and local environment of each individual species, or at the interface of magnetoelectric/multiferroic materials-based heterostructures. In light of this, the chapter briefly describes the various spectroscopic techniques including ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy, photoemission spectroscopy including X-ray photoemission spectroscopy, ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy and angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy, and X-ray absorption spectroscopy used to investigate the various aspects of multiferroic/magnetoelectric multiferroic materials and heterostructures.

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  1. Department of Physics, Shri Neelkantheshwar Government Post-Graduate College, Khandwa, India

    Arpana Agrawal

  2. Department of Physics, Islamic University of Science and Technology, Awantipora, India

    Tanveer Ahmad Dar

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  4. College of Science, Engineering and Technology, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of South Africa (UNISA), Johannesburg, South Africa

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Agrawal, A., Dar, T.A. (2022). Spectroscopic Techniques for Multiferroic Materials. In: Handbook of Magnetic Hybrid Nanoalloys and their Nanocomposites. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34007-0_20-1

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