Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

Voltage controlled interfacial magnetism through platinum orbits

  • Shinji Miwa,
  • Motohiro Suzuki,
  • Masahito Tsujikawa,
  • Kensho Matsuda,
  • Takayuki Nozaki,
  • Kazuhito Tanaka,
  • Takuya Tsukahara,
  • Kohei Nawaoka,
  • Minori Goto,
  • Yoshinori Kotani,
  • Tadakatsu Ohkubo,
  • Frédéric Bonell,
  • Eiiti Tamura,
  • Kazuhiro Hono,
  • Tetsuya Nakamura,
  • Masafumi Shirai,
  • Shinji Yuasa,
  • Yoshishige Suzuki

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15848
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Electric field control of magnetization is usually weak and this hampers its application for the ultralow-power-consumption spintronic devices. Here, the authors demonstrate a mechanism to enhance the control of magnetic anisotropy by voltage-induced electric quadrupole in a metal–dielectric interface.