Journal
PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE
Volume 94, Issue 17, Pages 1893-1908Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/14786435.2014.899438
Keywords
ferroelectrics; ferromagnetism; functional materials; thermodynamics
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- CICyT (Spain) [MAT2013-40590-P]
- US Department of Energy
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We provide a general thermodynamic framework to study multicaloric effects in multiferroic materials. This is applied to the case of a magnetoelectric multiferroic such as BiFeO3, which is described by means of a Landau free energy with a biquadratic coupling between polarization and magnetization. We obtain a phase diagram, the isothermal entropy change and the adiabatic temperature change across different continuous and first-order phase transitions as the applied electric and magnetic fields are varied. The multicaloric effects are suitably decomposed into the corresponding electrocaloric and magnetocaloric contributions.
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