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Increase in the electric polarization in a multiferroic induced by the flexoelectric effect

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It has been shown that the electric polarization in multiferroic crystals exhibiting the magnetoelectric effect can be increased in the presence of the flexoelectric effect. The polarization in manganite-based perovskite-like multiferroics can be increased if the long axes of the rhombohedra formed upon the rhombohedral distortion of MnO6 octahedra can undergo fan spatial rotations, leading to the flexoelectric effect.

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Original Russian Text © S.A. Pikin, I.S. Lyubutin, 2012, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Eksperimental’noi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki, 2012, Vol. 96, No. 4, pp. 257–261.

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Pikin, S.A., Lyubutin, I.S. Increase in the electric polarization in a multiferroic induced by the flexoelectric effect. Jetp Lett. 96, 240–244 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364012160084

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