Nature Communications (Jan 2021)
Electric-field control of skyrmions in multiferroic heterostructure via magnetoelectric coupling
- You Ba,
- Shihao Zhuang,
- Yike Zhang,
- Yutong Wang,
- Yang Gao,
- Hengan Zhou,
- Mingfeng Chen,
- Weideng Sun,
- Quan Liu,
- Guozhi Chai,
- Jing Ma,
- Ying Zhang,
- Huanfang Tian,
- Haifeng Du,
- Wanjun Jiang,
- Cewen Nan,
- Jia-Mian Hu,
- Yonggang Zhao
Affiliations
- You Ba
- Department of Physics, State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics, Tsinghua University
- Shihao Zhuang
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Yike Zhang
- Department of Physics, State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics, Tsinghua University
- Yutong Wang
- Department of Physics, State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics, Tsinghua University
- Yang Gao
- Key Laboratory for Magnetism and Magnetic Materials of the Ministry of Education, Lanzhou University
- Hengan Zhou
- Department of Physics, State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics, Tsinghua University
- Mingfeng Chen
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, Tsinghua University
- Weideng Sun
- Department of Physics, State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics, Tsinghua University
- Quan Liu
- Department of Physics, State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics, Tsinghua University
- Guozhi Chai
- Key Laboratory for Magnetism and Magnetic Materials of the Ministry of Education, Lanzhou University
- Jing Ma
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, Tsinghua University
- Ying Zhang
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Huanfang Tian
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Haifeng Du
- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics at Extreme Conditions, High Magnetic Field Laboratory of Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China
- Wanjun Jiang
- Department of Physics, State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics, Tsinghua University
- Cewen Nan
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, Tsinghua University
- Jia-Mian Hu
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Yonggang Zhao
- Department of Physics, State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics, Tsinghua University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20528-y
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 12,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 10
Abstract
The common approaches to control of skymions cause significant heat dissipation or require high electric fields near the breakdown threshold. Here, the authors demonstrate electric-field control of skyrmions through strain-mediated magnetoelectric coupling in multiferroic heterostructures.
