Nature Communications (May 2017)

Artificial control of the bias-voltage dependence of tunnelling-anisotropic magnetoresistance using quantization in a single-crystal ferromagnet

  • Iriya Muneta,
  • Toshiki Kanaki,
  • Shinobu Ohya,
  • Masaaki Tanaka

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15387
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Reduction of power consumption for magnetization reversal in spintronic memory devices is of great importance. Here, Munetaet al. report the gate electric-field assisted control of the magnetic anisotropy of the density of states using quantum size effect in GaMnAs.