The ability to control magnetic vortex is critical for their potential applications in spintronic devices.Traditional methods including magnetic field,spin-polarized current etc.have been used to flip the core and/or ...The ability to control magnetic vortex is critical for their potential applications in spintronic devices.Traditional methods including magnetic field,spin-polarized current etc.have been used to flip the core and/or reverse circulation of vortex.However,it is challenging for deterministic electric-field control of the single magnetic vortex textures with time-reversal broken symmetry and no planar magnetic anisotropy.Here it is reported that a deterministic reversal of single magnetic vortex circulation can be driven back and forth by a space-varying strain in multiferroic heterostructures,which is controlled by using a bi-axial pulsed electric field.Phase-field simulation reveals the mechanism of the emerging magnetoelastic energy with the space variation and visualizes the reversal pathway of the vortex.This deterministic electric-field control of the single magnetic vortex textures demonstrates a new approach to integrate the low-dimensional spin texture into the magnetoelectric thin film devices with low energy consumption.展开更多
Solid state reaction is a conventional method to synthesize structurally stable inorganic solids by mixing powdered reactants together at high pressure (over 1 x 105 mbar (1 mbar = 100 Pa)) and high temperature (...Solid state reaction is a conventional method to synthesize structurally stable inorganic solids by mixing powdered reactants together at high pressure (over 1 x 105 mbar (1 mbar = 100 Pa)) and high temperature (over 1300 K) [1-4]. This method is effective and sophisticated to prepare solid mate- rials, especially the functional complex oxides such as high temperature superconductors, piezoelectrics, dielectrics, etc. However, the chemical reactions cannot be intrinsically con- trolled and integrated at an atomic level in order to achieve the applications of future thin film devices with reduced dimensions [5]. With the desire of designing high-quality products with the micro/nanoscale integration, many pow- erful physical techniques, such as, pulsed-laser deposition (PLD), molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), sputtering deposi- tion, etc., have experienced enormous development due to their ability of lattice and/or interfacial controls. Using these growth techniques, layer-by-layer deposition (multilayer and/or superlattice) can be achieved, providing us a platform to tune the crystal structures at an atomic level by controlling the interfacial terminations and epitaxial strain, which are absent in their bulk counterparts [6-8]. From this point of view, well-controlled interfacial structures may also provide the solid state reaction at an atomic level during the physical depositions, which provides us an effective way to design the desired products from the chemical bonding reconstruction.展开更多
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2016YFA0302300 and 2017YFA0206200)Basic Science Center Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51788104)+5 种基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(11974052,51972028)Beijing Natural Science Foundation(Z190008)Chinese Academy of Sciences Interdisciplinary Innovation Teamfunded by the Director,Office of Science,Office of Basic Energy Sciences,Materials Science and Engineering Department of the US Department of Energy(DOE)in the Quantum Materials Program(KC2202)under Contract No.DEAC02-05CH11231the support by the Science Alliance Joint Directed Research&Development Programthe Transdisciplinary Academy Program at the University of Tennessee。
文摘The ability to control magnetic vortex is critical for their potential applications in spintronic devices.Traditional methods including magnetic field,spin-polarized current etc.have been used to flip the core and/or reverse circulation of vortex.However,it is challenging for deterministic electric-field control of the single magnetic vortex textures with time-reversal broken symmetry and no planar magnetic anisotropy.Here it is reported that a deterministic reversal of single magnetic vortex circulation can be driven back and forth by a space-varying strain in multiferroic heterostructures,which is controlled by using a bi-axial pulsed electric field.Phase-field simulation reveals the mechanism of the emerging magnetoelastic energy with the space variation and visualizes the reversal pathway of the vortex.This deterministic electric-field control of the single magnetic vortex textures demonstrates a new approach to integrate the low-dimensional spin texture into the magnetoelectric thin film devices with low energy consumption.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.51332001,11604011,and 11404016)the National Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.2014CB920902)Open Fund of State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications(Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)(Grand No.2016B002)
文摘Solid state reaction is a conventional method to synthesize structurally stable inorganic solids by mixing powdered reactants together at high pressure (over 1 x 105 mbar (1 mbar = 100 Pa)) and high temperature (over 1300 K) [1-4]. This method is effective and sophisticated to prepare solid mate- rials, especially the functional complex oxides such as high temperature superconductors, piezoelectrics, dielectrics, etc. However, the chemical reactions cannot be intrinsically con- trolled and integrated at an atomic level in order to achieve the applications of future thin film devices with reduced dimensions [5]. With the desire of designing high-quality products with the micro/nanoscale integration, many pow- erful physical techniques, such as, pulsed-laser deposition (PLD), molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), sputtering deposi- tion, etc., have experienced enormous development due to their ability of lattice and/or interfacial controls. Using these growth techniques, layer-by-layer deposition (multilayer and/or superlattice) can be achieved, providing us a platform to tune the crystal structures at an atomic level by controlling the interfacial terminations and epitaxial strain, which are absent in their bulk counterparts [6-8]. From this point of view, well-controlled interfacial structures may also provide the solid state reaction at an atomic level during the physical depositions, which provides us an effective way to design the desired products from the chemical bonding reconstruction.