Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Large magnetoelectric coupling in multiferroic oxide heterostructures assembled via epitaxial lift-off

  • D. Pesquera,
  • E. Khestanova,
  • M. Ghidini,
  • S. Zhang,
  • A. P. Rooney,
  • F. Maccherozzi,
  • P. Riego,
  • S. Farokhipoor,
  • J. Kim,
  • X. Moya,
  • M. E. Vickers,
  • N. A. Stelmashenko,
  • S. J. Haigh,
  • S. S. Dhesi,
  • N. D. Mathur

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16942-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Key properties of transition metal perovskite oxides are degraded after epitaxial growth on ferroelectric substrates due to lattice-mismatch strain. Here, the authors use epitaxial lift-off and transfer to overcome this problem and demonstrate electric field control of a bulk-like magnetization.