Electric-field control of local ferromagnetism using a magnetoelectric multiferroic

Nature Materials - Tập 7 Số 6 - Trang 478-482 - 2008
Ying‐Hao Chu1, Lane W. Martin1, Mikel B. Holcomb2, M. Gajek2, Shu-Jen Han3, Qing He2, Nina Balke2, Chan‐Ho Yang2, Donkoun Lee3, Wei Hu3, Qian Zhan2, Pei-Ling Yang2, Arantxa Fraile Rodríguez4, A. Schöll5, Shan X. Wang3, R. Ramesh6
1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
2Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
3Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California 94305, USA
4Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI CH-5232, Switzerland
5Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
6Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA

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