Magnetism manipulation in ferromagnetic/ferroelectric heterostructures by electric field induced strain*

Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51671098) and the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University, China (Grant No. IRT16R35).

Guo Xiaobin, Li Dong, Xi Li
       

(color online) (a) Normalized Kerr rotation hysteresis curves along the -direction under different E-fields. The inset shows the in-plane strain difference (εyεx) as a function of the E-fields (from Fig.3 in Ref. [50]). (b) Angular dependence of Mr/Ms with E = 0 (open square), 4 kV/cm (open circle), and after releasing 4 kV/cm (open triangle) E-fields. The inset gives the MH loops without the E-field and after releasing 4 kV/cm E-fields (from Fig. 2 in Ref. [52]). (c) Voltage-impulse-induced non-volatile switching of FMR frequency in FeCoB/(011) PMN-PT heterostructures (from Fig. 1(f) in Ref. [53]). (d) Schematics of the E-field-induced ferroelectric/ferroelastic domain switching pathways in (011) oriented PZN-PT single crystal substrates (from Fig. S1(b) in Ref. [49]).