Insitu experimental setup to study magneto-electric effects in a single nanoparticle using Bragg coherent diffraction imaging

Phase transitions in multiferroic and ferroelectric materials are important for the development of spintronic devices, solar cells, catalysis, energy and information storage. We report on a recently developed insitu experimental setup to study phase transitions in multiferroic nanostructures by means of Bragg coherent diffraction imaging. By using a system capable of providing variable waveforms of pulsed electric and magnetic field uniformly on sample's crystallographic direction, we were able to map local ferroelectric phase transitions in a single nanoparticle. The system is capable of driving the sample with electric field up to 5MV/cm with a pulse of variable shape and duration while simultaneously applying pulsed magnetic field of up to 0.5mT both synchronously and asynchronously. Hall effect sensors provide real-time feedback for calibration and adjustment of magnetic field. In this poster, we highlight the capabilities of our setup to study hundreds of ps to ms dynamics in a single magneto-electric nanostructure under applied EM-field using Bragg coherent diffraction imaging. Further development will allow to synchronize the pulsed fields and arriving pulses of synchrotron radiation to increase the accessible temporal resolution of the experiment.