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Multiferroic materials have garnered wide interest for their exceptional static and dynamical magnetoelectric properties. In particular, type-II multiferroics exhibit an inversion-symmetry-breaking magnetic order which directly induces a…

Emerging ferroic materials may pave a new way to next-generation nanoelectronic and spintronic devices due to their interesting physical properties. Here, we systematically review unconventional ferroelectric systems, from Hf-based and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-16 Hongyu Yu , Junyi Ji , Wei Luo , Xingao Gong , Hongjun Xiang

Magnons carriers of spin information can be controlled by electric fields in the multiferroic BiFeO$_3$ (BFO), a milestone that brings magnons closer to application in future devices. The origin of magnon-spin currents in BFO, however, is…

Given the paucity of single phase multiferroic materials (with large ferromagnetic moment), composite systems seem an attractive solution in the quest to realize magnetoelectric cou-pling between ferromagnetic and ferroelectric order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-15 P. Jain , Q. Wang , M. Roldan , A. Glavic , V. Lauter , C. Urban , Z. Bi , T. Ahmed , J. Zhu , M. Varela , Q. Jia , M. R. Fitzsimmons

The realization of fully reconfigurable, voltage-controlled, and programmable on-chip magnonic devices is essential to fully harness the potential of spin waves for signal processing, logic and neuromorphic computing. Yet, existing…

The topological properties of quasiparticles, such as skyrmions and vortices, have the potential to offer extraordinary metastability through topological protection, and drive motion with minimal electrical current excitation. This has…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-29 Nimish P. Nazirkar , Sowmya Srinivasan , Ross Harder , Edwin Fohtung

Ferroelectric polarization switching in electrically controlled van der Waals multiferroic tunnel junctions (vdW-MFTJs) causes atomic migration, compromising device stability and fatigue resistance. Here we propose a fully magnetically…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-20 Zhi Yan , Xujin Zhang , Jianhua Xiao , Cheng Fang , Xiaohong Xu

The magnetic tunnel junction is a cornerstone of spintronic devices and circuits, providing the main way to convert between magnetic and electrical information. In state-of-the-art magnetic tunnel junctions, magnesium oxide is used as the…

This article presents a survey of many nontrivial effects connected with the coupling of electric and magnetic degrees of freedom in solids -- the field initiated by I.~E.~Dzyaloshinskii in 1959. I briefly consider the main physics of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-16 D. I. Khomskii

Films of Hf0.5Z0.5O2 (HZO) contain a network of grain boundaries. In (111) HZO epitaxial films on (001) SrTiO3, for instance, twinned orthorhombic (o-HZO) ferroelectric crystallites coexist with grain boundaries between o-HZO and a residual…

Ferroelectric control of two-dimensional magnetism is promising in fabricating electronic devices with high speed and low energy consumption. The newly discovered layered MnBi$_2$Te$_4$(Bi$_2$Te$_3$)$_n$ and their Sb counterparts exhibit…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-29 Guoliang Yu , Chuhan Tang , Zhiqiang Tian , Ziming Zhu , Anlian Pan , Mingxing Chen , Xing-Qiu Chen

Magnetic skyrmions are localized magnetic structures that retain their shape and stability over time, thanks to their topological nature. Recent theoretical and experimental progress has laid the groundwork for understanding magnetic…

Novel imaging spin-filter techniques, which are based on low energy electron diffraction, are currently of high scientific interest. To improve the spin-detection efficiency a variety of new materials have been introduced in recent years. A…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-11-18 Stephan Borek , Jürgen Braun , Hubert Ebert , Ján Minár

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

We present a comprehensive theoretical investigation of magnetoelectric (ME) coupling mechanisms in 19 altermagnetic and 4 ferrimagnetic Type-I multiferroics using electronic band structure calculations with spin-orbit coupling, a…

Spintronic devices based on antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials hold the promise of fast switching speeds and robustness against magnetic fields. Different device concepts have been predicted and experimentally demonstrated, such as…

Couplings between ferroelectric and magnetic orders offer promising routes toward low-dissipation electronics. However, such couplings are notably rare, largely due to the poor compatibility between insulating band structures and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-20 Jan Priessnitz , Anna Birk Hellenes , Riccardo Comin , Libor Šmejkal

Magnetic skyrmions and multiferroics are the most interesting objects in nanostructure science that have great potential in future spin-electronic technology. The study of the multiferroic skyrmions has attracted much interest in recent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Zidong Wang , Malcolm J. Grimson

Spin-driven multiferroics exhibit strong magnetoelectric coupling, with notable polarization changes under a magnetic field, but these effects are usually limited to high-Z magnetic insulators with low electronic polarization. In this work,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-31 Ranquan Cao , Ruizhi Dong , Ruixiang Fei , Yugui Yao

BiFeO3 is a model multiferroic in which the ferroelectric polarization is coupled to ferroelastic lattice distortions, yet deterministic control of its domain structure remains limited by high switching fields and competing polarization…