Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

Electric-field control of ferromagnetism through oxygen ion gating

  • Hao-Bo Li,
  • Nianpeng Lu,
  • Qinghua Zhang,
  • Yujia Wang,
  • Deqiang Feng,
  • Tianzhe Chen,
  • Shuzhen Yang,
  • Zheng Duan,
  • Zhuolu Li,
  • Yujun Shi,
  • Weichao Wang,
  • Wei-Hua Wang,
  • Kui Jin,
  • Hui Liu,
  • Jing Ma,
  • Lin Gu,
  • Cewen Nan,
  • Pu Yu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02359-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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It has been suggested that the magnetic properties of metal layers using reversible redox reactions could form the basis of memory devices but this requires fast electric control to be practical. Here the authors demonstrate this on sub-millisecond timescales in a metal–oxide heterostructure.