Crystal structure refinement, ferroelectric and ferromagnetic properties of Ho3+ modified BiFeO3 multiferroic material

Multiferroic Bi1-xHoxFeO3 (x = 0, 0.05, 0.1) ceramics have been prepared by rapid liquid phase sintering method. The effect of Ho3+ doping on the crystal structure, dielectric, ferroelectric properties, TN and TM of BiFeO3 ceramics is studied. The result shows that all the peaks for Bi1-xHoxFeO3 samples can be indexed according to the crystal structure of pure BiFeO3 by XRD and the grain size from 1 to 5 μm is observed for BiFeO3 samples with...