Strontium Manganite form that can tilt its atoms to generate an electrical charge (IMAGE)

University of Warwick

Strontium Manganite form that can tilt its atoms to generate an electrical charge

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The new material is a form of strontium manganite and gets around this by using a simple structural trick: pairs of atoms inside its crystal structure tilt together in a coordinated way. This tiny shift is enough to generate an electrical charge across the material while also giving it a weak, switchable magnetism. 

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Struan Simpson, Urmimala Dey, Martin R. Lees, Ivan Da Silva, Nicholas C. Bristowe, Mark S. Senn; Near-Room-Temperature Magnetoelectric Coupling Engineered through Inversion-Breaking Tilts in a Bulk Perovskite Polytype. Journal American Chemical Society 2026; https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c11283This publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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