Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

Low voltage control of exchange coupling in a ferromagnet-semiconductor quantum well hybrid structure

  • V. L. Korenev,
  • I. V. Kalitukha,
  • I. A. Akimov,
  • V. F. Sapega,
  • E. A. Zhukov,
  • E. Kirstein,
  • O. S. Ken,
  • D. Kudlacik,
  • G. Karczewski,
  • M. Wiater,
  • T. Wojtowicz,
  • N. D. Ilyinskaya,
  • N. M. Lebedeva,
  • T. A. Komissarova,
  • Yu. G. Kusrayev,
  • D. R. Yakovlev,
  • M. Bayer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10774-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Manipulating magnetic orders by electric fields promises energy efficient spintronic applications. Here the authors demonstrate electrical control of s-p exchange interaction in a ferromagnet-semiconductor quantum well structure due to the phononic ac Stark effect.