Purely antiferromagnetic magnetoelectric random access memory

Tobias Kosub; Martin Kopte; Ruben Hühne; Patrick Appel; Brendan Shields; Patrick Maletinsky; René Hübner; Maciej Oskar Liedke; Jürgen Fassbender; Oliver G. Schmidt; Denys Makarov

doi:10.1038/ncomms13985

Nature Communications (Jan 2017)

Purely antiferromagnetic magnetoelectric random access memory

Tobias Kosub,
Martin Kopte,
Ruben Hühne,
Patrick Appel,
Brendan Shields,
Patrick Maletinsky,
René Hübner,
Maciej Oskar Liedke,
Jürgen Fassbender,
Oliver G. Schmidt,
Denys Makarov

Affiliations

Tobias Kosub: Institute for Integrative Nanosciences, Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW Dresden e.V.)
Martin Kopte: Institute for Integrative Nanosciences, Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW Dresden e.V.)
Ruben Hühne: Institute for Metallic Materials, Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW Dresden e.V.)
Patrick Appel: Department of Physics, University of Basel
Brendan Shields: Department of Physics, University of Basel
Patrick Maletinsky: Department of Physics, University of Basel
René Hübner: Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V., Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research
Maciej Oskar Liedke: Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V., Institute of Radiation Physics
Jürgen Fassbender: Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V., Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research
Oliver G. Schmidt: Institute for Integrative Nanosciences, Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW Dresden e.V.)
Denys Makarov: Institute for Integrative Nanosciences, Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW Dresden e.V.)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13985
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Magnetoelectric coupling allows switching of magnetic states via gate voltage pulses. Here the authors propose and demonstrate a purely antiferromagnetic magnetoelectric random access memory based on Cr2O3, reporting 50-fold reduction of writing threshold compared to ferromagnetic counterparts.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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