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When electric and magnetic fields are applied together on a magnetoelectric antiferromagnet, the domain state is subject to reversal. Although the initial and final conditions are saturated single-domain states, the process of reversal may…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Arun Parthasarathy , Shaloo Rakheja

Based on micromagnetic simulations, we report on a novel helical magnetic structure in a soft magnetic film that is sandwiched between and exchange-coupled to two hard magnetic layers. Confined between antiparallel hard magnetic moments, a…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-12-04 L. V. Dzemiantsova , G. Meier , R. Röhlsberger

Magnons, bosonic quasiparticles carrying angular momentum, can flow through insulators for information transmission with minimal power dissipation. However, it remains challenging to develop a magnon-based logic due to the lack of efficient…

Magneto-structural instability in the ferromagnetic shape memory alloy of composition Ni$_2$Mn$_{1.4}$Sn$_{0.6}$ is investigated by transport and magnetic measurements. Large negative magnetoresistance is observed around the martensitic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Chatterjee , S. Giri , S. Majumdar , S. K. De

Non-volatile magnetic storage, from 1940s magnetic core to present day racetrack memory and magnetic anisotropy switching devices rely on the metastability of magnetic domains to store information. However, the inherent inefficiency of…

A promising approach to the next generation of low-power, functional, and energy-efficient electronics relies on novel materials with coupled magnetic and electric degrees of freedom. In particular, stripy antiferromagnets often exhibit…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-21 Pingfan Gu , Cong Wang , Dan Su , Zehao Dong , Qiuyuan Wang , Zheng Han , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Wei Ji , Young Sun , Yu Ye

In this letter, we demonstrate a non-volatile memory device in a graphene FET structure using ferroelectric gating. The binary information, i.e. "1" and "0", is represented by the high and low resistance states of the graphene working…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-23 Yi Zheng , Guang-Xin Ni , Chee-Tat Toh , Ming-Gang Zeng , Shu-Ting Chen , Kui Yao , Barbaros Ozyilmaz

Ferromagnets are key materials for sensing and memory applications. In contrast, antiferromagnets that represent the more common form of magnetically ordered materials, have so far found less practical application beyond their use for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-31 J. Železný , P. Wadley , K. Olejník. A. Hoffmann , H. Ohno

A rapidly developing field of spintronics is based on the premise that substituting charge with spin as a carrier of information can lead to new devices with lower power consumption, non-volatility and high operational speed. Despite…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Overby , A. Chernyshov , L. P. Rokhinson , X. Liu , J. K. Furdyna

It has been proposed that antiferromagnetic Fe adatom spins on semiconductor Cu-N surfaces can be used to store information [S. Loth {\it et al}, Science \textbf{335}, 196 (2012)]. Here, we investigate spin dynamics of such…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-11 Jun Li , Bang-Gui Liu

Due to the lack of a net magnetic moment, antiferromagnets possess a unique robustness to external magnetic fields and are thus predicted to play an important role in future magnetic technologies. However, this robustness also makes them…

The ground state properties of correlated electron systems can be extraordinarily sensitive to external stimuli, such as temperature, strain, and electromagnetic fields, offering abundant platforms for functional materials. We present a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 A. S. McLeod , J. Zhang , M. Q. Gu , F. Jin , G. Zhang , K. W. Post , X. G. Zhao , A. J. Millis , W. Wu , J. M. Rondinelli , R. D. Averitt , D. N. Basov

The ability to reversibly toggle between two distinct states in a non-volatile method is important for information storage applications. Such devices have been realized for phase-change materials, which utilizes local heating methods to…

Magnetoelectric coupling is vital for exploring fundamental science and driving the development of high-density memory and energy-efficient spintronic devices. Altermagnets, which merge the benefits of ferromagnets and antiferromagnets,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-03 Pengqiang Dong , Hanbo Sun , Chao Wu , Ping Li

Thin FeRh film was extensively studied recently, and an emergent substrate- and capping-dependent interfacial ferromagnetism (FM) was widely observed in experiments. However, the voltage modulation of this interfacial ferromagnetism is…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-14 Guohui Zheng , Nicholas Kioussis

We investigate the electric field induced resistive switching effect and magnetic field induced fraction enlargement on a polycrystalline sample of a colossal magnetoresistive compound displaying intrinsic phase coexistence. Our data show…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Quintero , A. G. Leyva , P. Levy

The ability to make controlled patterns of magnetic structures within a nonmagnetic background is essential for several types of existing and proposed technologies. Such patterns provide the foundation of magnetic memory and logic devices,…

Magnetic vortices in soft ferromagnetic nano-disks have been extensively studied for at least several decades both for their fundamental (as a "live" macroscopic realization of a field theory model of an elementary particle) as well as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-18 Konstantin L. Metlov

The persistent and switchable polarization of ferroelectric materials based on HfO$_2$-based ferroelectric compounds, compatible with large-scale integration, are attractive synaptic elements for neuromorphic computing. To achieve a record…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Laura Bégon-Lours , Mattia Halter , Youri Popoff , Zhenming Yu , Donato Francesco Falcone , Bert Jan Offrein

Ultrafast switching of ferroic phases is an important research frontier, with significant technological potential. Yet, current efforts are meeting some key challenges, ranging from limited speeds in ferromagnets to intrinsic volatility of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-13 Z. Zeng , M. Först , M. Fechner , D. Prabhakaran , P. G. Radaelli , A. Cavalleri