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Electromagnetic fields induced by a point source in a uniaxial multiferroic full-space, half-space, and bimaterial space

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

X. Wang  and
E. Pan
X. Wang
Affiliation:
Department of Civil Engineering and Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325-3905
E. Pan*
Affiliation:
Department of Civil Engineering and Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325-3905
*
a)Address all correspondence to this author. e-mail: pan2@uakron.edu
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Abstract

Multiferroic magnetoelectrics are materials that are both ferroelectric and ferromagnetic in the same phase. In addition, electric and magnetic polarizations are strongly coupled in some magnetoelectric multiferroic materials. In this work, by virtue of the image method, exact closed-form Green’s functions are derived for a uniaxial multiferroic full-space, half-space, and bimaterial space. While for the bimaterial space case the interface is assumed to be perfect, for the half-space case four different sets of surface conditions are considered. The point source can be either an electric or a magnetic charge. Numerical results are presented to demonstrate the differences among the infinite-space, half-space, and bimaterial space Green’s functions.

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FerroelectricFerromagneticPiezoelectric
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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 22 , Issue 8 , August 2007 , pp. 2144 - 2155
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2007

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