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Abstract

Multiferroic materials exhibit two or more ferroic orders and have potential applications as multifunctional materials in the electronics industry. A coupling of ferroelectricity and ferromagnetism is hereby particularly promising. We show that the synthetic melanostibite mineral Mn2FeSbO6 (R (3) over bar space group) with ilmenite-type structure exhibits cation off-centering that results in alternating modulated displacements, thus allowing antiferroelectricity to occur. Massive magnetoelectric coupling ( MEC) and magnetocapacitance effect of up to 4000% was detected at a record high temperature of 260 K. The multiferroic behavior is based on the imbalance of cationic displacements caused by a magnetostrictive mechanism, which sets up an unprecedented example to pave the way for the development of highly effective MEC devices operational at or near room temperature.

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Dos santos-Garcia, Antonio J.;  Solana-Madruga, Elena;  Ritter, Clemens;  Andrada-Chacon, Adrian;  Sanchez-Benitez, Javier;  Mompean, Federico J.;  Garcia-Hernandez, Mar;  Saez-Puche, Regino;  Schmidt, Rainer

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