Delphine Lebeugle, Dorothée Colson, Anne Forget, Michel Viret (IRAMIS/SPEC CEA-Saclay) Arsen Goukassov, Alexandre Bataille (IRAMIS/LLB CEA-Saclay) Magnetic materials are heavily used in the dynamic storage of information (hard disk drive, head for reading). For these applications, they are ... More »

Multi-ferroïcs are exceptional materials whose fundamental state is both magnetic and ferro-electric [1]. Moreover, in such materials, magnetism and ferroelectricity maintains close links: as for example the manganese oxide YMnO3 [2], can see its magnetization modified by the action of an ... More »

TiNi alloy is polymorphic. It exhibits a martensitic transition near room temperature between a cubic CsCl-type (austenite) and a monoclinic TiNi-type (martensite) structure. This transformation is at the origin of its shape memory effect. In addition, TiNi has good hydrogen storage properties ... More »

1Groupe Matière Condensée et Matériaux, UMR-CNRS 6626, Université de Rennes 1, 35042 Rennes, France 2 Laboratoire d’Optronique, FOTON, UMR-CNRS 6082, 22302 Lannion, France 3 Laboratoire Léon Brillouin (CEA-CNRS), CEA . Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette ... More »

1: St. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, 188350, Gatchina, St. Petersburg, Russia 2: Laboratoire Léon Brillouin, CE-Saclay, F-91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France 3: A. F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, 194021, St. Petersburg, Russia 4: Rostov State University, 344090, Rostov/Don, ... More »

  In the pyrochlore compounds R2Mo2O7, both rare earth R3+ and M4+ transition metal ions form a threedimensional network of corner sharing tetrahedra. The pyrochlore lattice is geometrically frustrated both for antiferromagnetic (AF) and ferromagnetic (F) nearestneighbour exchange ... More »