Electrical switching of magnetization in the artificial multiferroic CoFeB/BaTiO_3
Electronic, magnetic, chemical, and mechanical phenomena occurring in metal/oxide heterostructures have recently received great attention in view of their exploitation in novel solid state devices. In particular, artificial multiferroics, i.e., layered or composite systems made of a ferromagnetic an...
| Autores: | , , , , , , , , , |
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) |
| Repositorio: | Docta Complutense |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/104692 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/104692 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | 538.9 537.8 Field Polarization Viscosity Magnetism Silicon Films Física de materiales Electromagnetismo 2211 Física del Estado Sólido |
| Sumario: | Electronic, magnetic, chemical, and mechanical phenomena occurring in metal/oxide heterostructures have recently received great attention in view of their exploitation in novel solid state devices. In particular, artificial multiferroics, i.e., layered or composite systems made of a ferromagnetic and ferroelectric phase, hold potential for achieving the electric control of the magnetization in spintronic devices. In this paper, a novel artificial multiferroic displaying perpendicular magnetic anisotropy is reported: the CoFeB/BaTiO3 bilayer. At room temperature, the CoFeB magnetic coercive field displays a hysteretic behavior, as a function of the voltage across the BaTiO3 layer, with a 60% variation for complete reversal of the ferroelectric BaTiO3 polarization. This is exploited to achieve the electric switching of the magnetization of individual CoFeB electrodes under a uniform magnetic bias field. Upon the local BaTiO3 polarization reversal, the CoFeB electrode jumps from an initial metastable state into the opposite stable magnetization state, with a characteristic switching time determined by magnetic viscosity. The magnetically assisted bipolar electric switching of the magnetization is demonstrated, via voltage pulses compatible with complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) electronics, under uniform bias fields as low as 10 Oe. |
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