Nature Communications (Jul 2020)
Electric-field-driven non-volatile multi-state switching of individual skyrmions in a multiferroic heterostructure
- Yadong Wang,
- Lei Wang,
- Jing Xia,
- Zhengxun Lai,
- Guo Tian,
- Xichao Zhang,
- Zhipeng Hou,
- Xingsen Gao,
- Wenbo Mi,
- Chun Feng,
- Min Zeng,
- Guofu Zhou,
- Guanghua Yu,
- Guangheng Wu,
- Yan Zhou,
- Wenhong Wang,
- Xi-xiang Zhang,
- Junming Liu
Affiliations
- Yadong Wang
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Information Materials and Technology & Institute for Advanced Materials, South China Academy of Advanced Optoelectronics, South China Normal University
- Lei Wang
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing
- Jing Xia
- School of Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
- Zhengxun Lai
- Colleage of Science, Tianjin University
- Guo Tian
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Information Materials and Technology & Institute for Advanced Materials, South China Academy of Advanced Optoelectronics, South China Normal University
- Xichao Zhang
- School of Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
- Zhipeng Hou
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Information Materials and Technology & Institute for Advanced Materials, South China Academy of Advanced Optoelectronics, South China Normal University
- Xingsen Gao
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Information Materials and Technology & Institute for Advanced Materials, South China Academy of Advanced Optoelectronics, South China Normal University
- Wenbo Mi
- Colleage of Science, Tianjin University
- Chun Feng
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing
- Min Zeng
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Information Materials and Technology & Institute for Advanced Materials, South China Academy of Advanced Optoelectronics, South China Normal University
- Guofu Zhou
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Information Materials and Technology & Institute for Advanced Materials, South China Academy of Advanced Optoelectronics, South China Normal University
- Guanghua Yu
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing
- Guangheng Wu
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Yan Zhou
- School of Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
- Wenhong Wang
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Xi-xiang Zhang
- Physical Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
- Junming Liu
- Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17354-7
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 11,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 8
Abstract
Spin-polarized current manipulation of magnetic skyrmions is energy consuming. Here, the authors achieve an electric-field manipulation of individual skyrmions in a nanostructured ferromagnetic/ferroelectrical heterostructure at room temperature via an inverse magneto-mechanical effect.
