Control of magnetism by electric fields

F Matsukura, Y Tokura, H Ohno - Nature nanotechnology, 2015 - nature.com
The electrical manipulation of magnetism and magnetic properties has been achieved
across a number of different material systems. For example, applying an electric field to a …

Understanding and designing magnetoelectric heterostructures guided by computation: progresses, remaining questions, and perspectives

JM Hu, CG Duan, CW Nan, LQ Chen - NPJ Computational Materials, 2017 - nature.com
Magnetoelectric composites and heterostructures integrate magnetic and dielectric materials
to produce new functionalities, eg, magnetoelectric responses that are absent in each of the …

Purely antiferromagnetic magnetoelectric random access memory

T Kosub, M Kopte, R Hühne, P Appel, B Shields… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Magnetic random access memory schemes employing magnetoelectric coupling to write
binary information promise outstanding energy efficiency. We propose and demonstrate a …

Scanning gradiometry with a single spin quantum magnetometer

WS Huxter, ML Palm, ML Davis, P Welter… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Quantum sensors based on spin defects in diamond have recently enabled detailed imaging
of nanoscale magnetic patterns, such as chiral spin textures, two-dimensional ferromagnets …

Soft X-ray spectromicroscopy and ptychography

AP Hitchcock - Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related …, 2015 - Elsevier
Instrumentation and current capabilities of soft X-ray (50–2000 eV) spectromicroscopy are
outlined with examples from recently published and some new work. Four common …

Nanoscale imaging of antiferromagnetic domains in epitaxial films of Cr 2 O 3 via scanning diamond magnetic probe microscopy

A Erickson, SQA Shah, A Mahmood, I Fescenko… - RSC …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
We report direct imaging of boundary magnetization associated with antiferromagnetic
domains in magnetoelectric epitaxial Cr2O3 thin films using diamond nitrogen vacancy …

Surface magnetization in antiferromagnets: Classification, example materials, and relation to magnetoelectric responses

SF Weber, A Urru, S Bhowal, C Ederer, NA Spaldin - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
We use symmetry analysis and density-functional theory to determine and characterize
surface terminations that have a finite equilibrium magnetization density in antiferromagnetic …

All-electric access to the magnetic-field-invariant magnetization of antiferromagnets

T Kosub, M Kopte, F Radu, OG Schmidt, D Makarov - Physical Review Letters, 2015 - APS
The rich physics of thin film antiferromagnets can be harnessed for prospective spintronic
devices given that all-electric assessment of the tiny uncompensated magnetic moment is …

Topological surface magnetism and Néel vector control in a magnetoelectric antiferromagnet

K Du, X Xu, C Won, K Wang, SA Crooker… - npj Quantum …, 2023 - nature.com
Antiferromagnetic states with no stray magnetic fields can enable high-density ultra-fast
spintronic technologies. However, the detection and control of antiferromagnetic Néel …

Voltage controlled Néel vector rotation in zero magnetic field

A Mahmood, W Echtenkamp, M Street, JL Wang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Multi-functional thin films of boron (B) doped Cr2O3 exhibit voltage-controlled and
nonvolatile Néel vector reorientation in the absence of an applied magnetic field, H …