Electrical control of the magnetic state of Fe

Lukas Gerhard; Toyo Kazu Yamada; Timofey Balashov; Albert F. Takacs; R.J.H. Wesselink; Markus Dane; Michael Fechner; Sergey Ostanin; Arthur Ernst; Ingrid Mertig; Wulf Wulfhekel

doi:10.1109/TMAG.2011.2107506

Electrical control of the magnetic state of Fe

Lukas Gerhard, Toyo Kazu Yamada, Timofey Balashov, Albert F. Takacs, R.J.H. Wesselink, Markus Dane, Michael Fechner, Sergey Ostanin, Arthur Ernst, Ingrid Mertig, Wulf Wulfhekel

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Abstract

Magneto-electric coupling offers a new pathway to information storage in magnetic memory devices. This phenomenon has been observed in various materials ranging from insulators to semiconductors. In bulk metallic systems, magneto-electric coupling has been disregarded as the electric field cannot enter bulk metals. In this work, we show that a substantial magneto-electric coupling exists in metallic Fe nano-islands grown on Cu(111). Using the electric field in the tunnel junction of a scanning tunneling microscope, the magnetic order parameter and the crystal structure of Fe was changed on the nanometer scale. This allows high density nonvolatile information storage by means of magneto-electric coupling in a simple metallic system.

Original language	English
Article number	6
Pages (from-to)	1619-1622
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE transactions on magnetics
Volume	47
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TMAG.2011.2107506
Publication status	Published - 2011

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METIS-303166

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Electrical control of the magnetic state of Fe. / Gerhard, Lukas; Yamada, Toyo Kazu; Balashov, Timofey; Takacs, Albert F.; Wesselink, R.J.H.; Dane, Markus; Fechner, Michael; Ostanin, Sergey; Ernst, Arthur; Mertig, Ingrid; Wulfhekel, Wulf.

In: IEEE transactions on magnetics, Vol. 47, No. 6, 6, 2011, p. 1619-1622.

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