TY - JOUR KW - Thin films KW - Pulsed laser deposition KW - Film growth KW - Ferroelectricity KW - Epitaxial thin films KW - X-ray Diffraction KW - Lead compounds KW - Electronic structure KW - Magnetoelectric materials KW - Magnetoelectric effects KW - High pressure techniques KW - Multifunctional materials AU - L.W Martin AU - Q Zhan AU - Y Suzuki AU - Ramamoorthy Ramesh AU - M Chi AU - N Browning AU - T Mizoguchi AU - J Kreisel AB - Multifunctional materials promise to provide the foundation for a new class of devices in which functional properties are coupled to one another. Examples include magnetoelectric materials in which magnetic and ferroelectric properties are coupled. Here the authors report the successful growth of single phase, fully epitaxial thin films of the multifunctional material, PbV O3, using pulsed laser deposition. This growth offers an alternative means for the production of PbV O3 outside of high-temperature and high-pressure techniques through growth of epitaxial thin films on various substrates. The structure of this highly distorted perovskite is examined using x-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, and transmission electron microscopy. © 2007 American Institute of Physics. BT - Applied Physics Letters DO - 10.1063/1.2435944 LA - eng M1 - 6 N1 - cited By 44 N2 - Multifunctional materials promise to provide the foundation for a new class of devices in which functional properties are coupled to one another. Examples include magnetoelectric materials in which magnetic and ferroelectric properties are coupled. Here the authors report the successful growth of single phase, fully epitaxial thin films of the multifunctional material, PbV O3, using pulsed laser deposition. This growth offers an alternative means for the production of PbV O3 outside of high-temperature and high-pressure techniques through growth of epitaxial thin films on various substrates. The structure of this highly distorted perovskite is examined using x-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, and transmission electron microscopy. © 2007 American Institute of Physics. PY - 2007 T2 - Applied Physics Letters TI - Growth and structure of PbVO3 thin films VL - 90 SN - 00036951 ER -