Electric-field-driven non-volatile multi-state switching of individual skyrmions in a multiferroic heterostructure

Spin-polarized current manipulation of magnetic skyrmions is energy consuming. Here, the authors achieve an electric-field manipulation of individual skyrmions in a nanostructured ferromagnetic/ferroelectrical heterostructure at room temperature via an inverse magneto-mechanical effect.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yadong Wang, Lei Wang, Jing Xia, Zhengxun Lai, Guo Tian, Xichao Zhang, Zhipeng Hou, Xingsen Gao, Wenbo Mi, Chun Feng, Min Zeng, Guofu Zhou, Guanghua Yu, Guangheng Wu, Yan Zhou, Wenhong Wang, Xi-xiang Zhang, Junming Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17354-7