Probing electric field control of magnetism using ferromagnetic resonance

Published

January 29, 2015

Author(s)

Ziyao Zhou, Morgan Trassin, Ya Gao, Yuan Gao, Diana Qiu, Khalid Ashraf, Tianxiang Nan, Xi Yang, Samuel R. Bowden, Daniel T. Pierce, Mark D. Stiles, John Unguris, Ming Liu, Brandon Howe, Gail Brown, Sayeef Salahuddin, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Nian Sun

Abstract

A question of fundamental importance in multiferroic materials, such as BiFeO3, is whether the canted moment arising from the Dzyalozhinski-Moriya coupling is switchable with the application of an electric field. Since this canted moment is weak, directly probing it has been problematic. In this work, we have used a model ferromagnet (Co0.1Fe0.9) - BiFeO3 heterostructure to prove that the canted moment does indeed reverse direction with the application of a bipolar electric field. We have used a combination of spatially resolved magnetic imaging coupled with electric field dependent ferromagnetic resonance spectroscopy to provide direct evidence for such a reversal. This constitutes an important step toward robust repeatable and non-volatile voltage induced 180° magnetization switching in thin film multiferroic heterostructures.

Citation

Nature Communications

Volume

6

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Journals

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https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7082

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Keywords

multiferroic, ferromagnetic resonance, BFO, SEMPA

Citation

Zhou, Z. , Trassin, M. , Gao, Y. , Gao, Y. , Qiu, D. , Ashraf, K. , Nan, T. , Yang, X. , Bowden, S. , Pierce, D. , Stiles, M. , Unguris, J. , Liu, M. , Howe, B. , Brown, G. , Salahuddin, S. , Ramesh, R. and Sun, N. (2015), Probing electric field control of magnetism using ferromagnetic resonance, Nature Communications, [online], https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7082, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=914925 (Accessed October 1, 2025)