Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Magnetoelectric behavior via a spin state transition

  • Shalinee Chikara,
  • Jie Gu,
  • X.-G. Zhang,
  • Hai-Ping Cheng,
  • Nathan Smythe,
  • John Singleton,
  • Brian Scott,
  • Elizabeth Krenkel,
  • Jim Eckert,
  • Vivien S. Zapf

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11967-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Magnetoelectric effect enables versatile electronic and spintronic devices. Here the authors demonstrate a different strategy to achieve magnetoelectric coupling in which the electric polarization is controlled by magnetic spin state transition instead of the traditional ferro- or antiferromagnetic order.