The strange magnetism of oxides and carbons.

Magnetism without magnetic impurities in oxides ZrO2 and TiO2

Design Strategy and Prediction of New Room Temperature Magnetoelectric Multiferroics

Perovskite ABO3 oxides display many promising functional properties including ferroelectricity and magnetism. An ongoing challenge has been to design and synthesize materials in which ferroelectric and magnetic orderings not only coexist in a single phase above room temperature, but also are nontrivially coupled. Such a cross coupling between these different ferroic orderings could lead to many...

A polarity-induced defect mechanism for conductivity and magnetism at polar-nonpolar oxide interfaces.

The discovery of conductivity and magnetism at the polar-nonpolar interfaces of insulating nonmagnetic oxides such as LaAlO3 and SrTiO3 has raised prospects for attaining interfacial functionalities absent in the component materials. Yet, the microscopic origin of such emergent phenomena remains unclear, posing obstacles to design of improved functionalities. Here we present first principles ca...

How molecules become magnetic ... and the resulting wonderland

In everyday life, the word “magnetism” most often refers to solid materials, metals, alloys, oxides. As for molecules, they are considered to be isolated, non-magnetic objects. Nevertheless, to be or not to be (magnetic) is not the appropriate question: everything is magnetic; the true problem lies in determining how. The purpose of this lecture is to illustrate the magnetism of molecules throu...

Layer-by-layer epitaxial thin films of the pyrochlore Tb2Ti2O7.

Layer-by-layer epitaxial growth of the pyrochlore magnet Tb2Ti2O7 on the isostructural substrate Y2Ti2O7 results in high-quality single crystal films of up to 60 nm thickness. Substrate-induced strain is shown to act as a strong and controlled perturbation to the exotic magnetism of Tb2Ti2O7, opening up the general prospect of strain-engineering the diverse magnetic and electrical properties of...