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Search for ultrathin magnetic film with large perpendicular magnetocrystalline anisotropy (PMA) has been inspired for years by the continuous miniaturization of magnetic units in spintronics devices. The common magnetic materials used in…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-06-07 Xiaoxuan Ma , Jun Hu

The control of magnetic materials and devices by voltages without electric currents holds the promise of power-saving nano-scale devices. Here we study the temperature-dependent voltage control of the magnetic anisotropy caused by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Alejandro O. Leon , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

We theoretically investigate magnetic anisotropy in materials with non-critical elements to determine which symmetry conditions and atomic shell filling favor enhanced magnetic anisotropy. We study the magnetocrystalline anisotropies (MCA)…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-08 Nica Jane B. Ferrer , Gregory A. Fiete

We demonstrate dynamic voltage control of the magnetic anisotropy of a (Ga,Mn)As device bonded to a piezoelectric transducer. The application of a uniaxial strain leads to a large reorientation of the magnetic easy axis which is detected by…

In this work we suggest a theoretical approach, that allows to study the effects of magnetocrystalline anisotropy (MCA) in metallic systems using the Green`s functions formalism. We demonstrate that employment of the reciprocal space…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-22 Ilya V. Kashin , Sergei N. Andreev

Magnetocrystalline anisotropy (MCA) in doped Ce$_{2}$Co$_{17}$ and other competing structures was investigated using density functional theory. We confirmed that the MCA contribution from dumbbell Co sites is very negative. Replacing Co…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-11 Liqin Ke , D. A. Kukusta , Duane D. Johnson

The ability to tune and switch magnetic anisotropy to a perpendicular orientation is a key challenge for implementing 2D magnets in spintronic devices. H-phase vanadium dichalcogenides V$X_2$ ($X$=Te, Se, S) are promising ferromagnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-21 John Lawrence Euste , Maha Hsouna , Nataša Stojić

The magneto-crystalline anisotropy (MCA) of (Ga,Mn)As films has been studied on the basis of ab-initio electronic structure theory by performing magnetic torque calculations. An appreciable contribution to the in-plane uniaxial anisotropy…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-30 S. Mankovsky , S. Polesya , S. Bornemann , J. Minár , F. Hoffmann , C. H. Back , H. Ebert

Ultra-thin film of FeRh on insulator MgO substrate has been investigated usingab-initio electronic structure calculations. From this calculation, we have found the interesting effect of epitaxial strain on the magnetocrystalline anisotropy…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-14 Henry Hoffmann , Eun Sung Jekal

In this work, we present a detailed theoretical investigation of the electronic and magnetic properties of ferromagnetic slabs and clusters deposited on SrTiO$\_3$ via first-principles, with a particular emphasis on the magneto-crystalline…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-04-13 Alexander Smogunov , Cyrille Barreteau , Dongzhe Li

The Fe/MgO interface is an essential ingredient in spintronics as it shows giant tunneling magnetoresistance and strong perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA). A recent study demonstrated that the insertion of an ultra-thin LiF layer…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-16 Shoya Sakamoto , Takayuki Nozaki , Shinji Yuasa , Kenta Amemiya , Shinji Miwa

The control of magnetic properties by means of an electric field is an important aspect in magnetism and magnetoelectronics. We here utilize magnetoelastic coupling in ferromagnetic/piezoelectric hybrids to realize a voltage control of…

Electrical manipulation of lattice, charge, and spin has been realized respectively by the piezoelectric effect, field-effect transistor, and electric field control of ferromagnetism, bringing about dramatic promotions both in fundamental…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-27 Bin Cui , Cheng Song , Gillian A. Gehring , Fan Li , Guangyue Wang , Chao Chen , Jingjing Peng , Haijun Mao , Fei Zeng , Feng Pan

We report first-principles investigations of magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy (MCAE) oscillations as a function of capping layer thickness in Heusler alloy Co\textsubscript{2}FeAl/Ta heterostructures. Substantial oscillation is observed…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-28 Junfeng Qiao , Shouzhong Peng , Youguang Zhang , Hongxin Yang , Weisheng Zhao

We report the emergence of a novel interface-induced shape anisotropy component in zigzag-structured thin films fabricated via Sequential Oblique Angle Deposition (S-OAD). In this study, we systematically investigate cobalt (Co) and Co2FeAl…

We present a phenomenological scheme to study the size-dependent electric voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy in ferromagnetic (FM)/ferroelectric (FE) heterostructures. The FM layers are either metallic Fe(001), Ni(001), Co(0001), or…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 Jia-Mian Hu , Ce-Wen Nan , Long-Qing Chen

Unravelling the mechanism behind bulk perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) in amorphous rare earth-transition metal films has proven challenging. This is largely due to the inherent complexity of amorphous structure and the entangled…

Using micromagnetic simulations we demonstrate core reversal of a fixed magnetic skyrmion by modulating the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy of a nanomagnet with an electric field. We can switch reversibly between two skyrmion states and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-30 Dhritiman Bhattacharya , Md Mamun Al-Rashid , Jayasimha Atulasimha

An experimental demonstration of a parametric oscillation of a magnetization in a ferromagnet was performed recently by applying a microwave voltage, indicating the potential to be applied in a switching method in non-volatile memories. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-06 Tomohiro Taniguchi

We investigated the origin of perpendicular magneto-crystalline anisotropy (MCA) in L10 ordered FeNi alloy using first-principles density-functional calculations. We found that the perpendicular MCA of L10-FeNi arises predominantly from the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-11 Yoshio Miura , Sho Ozaki , Yasushi Kuwahara , Masahito Tsujikawa , Kazutaka Abe , Masafumi Shirai