Available online at www.sciencedirect.com ScienceDirect Materials Today: Proceedings 4 (2017) 5663–5666 www.materialstoday.com/proceedings 2214-7853 © 2017Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Selection and Peer-review under responsibility of INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIFUNCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR DEVICE APPLICATIONS(ICMDA-2016). ICMDA 2016 Room temperature magnetoelectric coupling of 0.4Zn 0.3 Ni 0.7 Fe 2 O 4 - 0.6PbZr 0.52 Ti 0.48 O 3 multiferroic nanocomposite S.Chakraborty a* , S. K. Mandal a , Rajesh Debnath a , Swati Singh a , P. Dey b and B.Saha a a Department of Physics, National Institute of Technology Agartala, Agartala, Tripura, 799046, India b Department of Physics, Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, West Bengal, 713340, India Abstract We have investigated room temperature magnetoelectric coupling of 0.4Zn 0.3 Ni 0.7 Fe 2 O 4 - 0.6PbZr 0.52 Ti 0.48 O 3 multiferroic nanocomposite prepared through low temperature pyrophoric chemical process and solid state route. Multiferroic magnetoelectric (ME) composite have gained lots of interest from past few years due to its potential applications in magnetic field sensors device applications. The structural characterization has been carried out through x- ray diffraction technique, which reveals simultaneous existence of both the phases of nanomatric grains. The value of magnetoelectric coefficient in transverse and longitudinal configurations is found to ~ 3.7 and ~ 3.2 mV/cmOe, respectively. The observed magnetoelectric effect is may be due to magnetostriction of the sample. © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Selection and Peer-review under responsibility of INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIFUNCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR DEVICE APPLICATIONS (ICMDA-2016). Keywords: Multiferroic, Ferroelectric, Ferromagnetic, Magnetostriction, ZNFO, PZT, Magnetoelectric coupling, Nanomaterial; * Corresponding author. Tel.:+91-9862243110. E-mail address: sarit91chakraborty@gmail.com