New modalities of strain-control of ferroelectric thin films

AR Damodaran, JC Agar, S Pandya… - Journal of Physics …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Ferroelectrics, with their spontaneous switchable electric polarization and strong coupling
between their electrical, mechanical, thermal, and optical responses, provide functionalities …

Electric-field control of magnetism via strain transfer across ferromagnetic/ferroelectric interfaces

T Taniyama - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
By taking advantage of the coupling between magnetism and ferroelectricity, ferromagnetic
(FM)/ferroelectric (FE) multiferroic interfaces play a pivotal role in manipulating magnetism …

Large reversible caloric effect in FeRh thin films via a dual-stimulus multicaloric cycle

Y Liu, LC Phillips, R Mattana, M Bibes… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Giant magnetocaloric materials are promising for solid-state refrigeration, as an alternative
to hazardous gases used in conventional cooling devices. A giant magnetocaloric effect was …

Full electroresistance modulation in a mixed-phase metallic alloy

ZQ Liu, L Li, Z Gai, JD Clarkson, SL Hsu, AT Wong… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
We report a giant,∼ 22%, electroresistance modulation for a metallic alloy above room
temperature. It is achieved by a small electric field of 2 kV/cm via piezoelectric strain …

Electrical control of magnetism by electric field and current-induced torques

A Fert, R Ramesh, V Garcia, F Casanova… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
While early magnetic memory designs relied on magnetization switching by locally
generated magnetic fields, key insights in condensed matter physics later suggested the …

Giant Piezomagnetism in Mn3NiN

D Boldrin, AP Mihai, B Zou, J Zemen… - … applied materials & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Controlling magnetism with electric field directly or through strain-driven piezoelectric
coupling remains a key goal of spintronics. Here, we demonstrate that giant …

Electrically reversible cracks in an intermetallic film controlled by an electric field

ZQ Liu, JH Liu, MD Biegalski, JM Hu, SL Shang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Cracks in solid-state materials are typically irreversible. Here we report electrically reversible
opening and closing of nanoscale cracks in an intermetallic thin film grown on a ferroelectric …

Multiferroic heterostructures for spintronics

E Gradauskaite, P Meisenheimer, M Müller… - Physical Sciences …, 2021 - degruyter.com
For next-generation technology, magnetic systems are of interest due to the natural ability to
store information and, through spin transport, propagate this information for logic functions …

Impact of lattice dynamics on the phase stability of metamagnetic FeRh: Bulk and thin films

M Wolloch, ME Gruner, W Keune, P Mohn, J Redinger… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
We present phonon dispersions, element-resolved vibrational density of states (VDOS) and
corresponding thermodynamic properties obtained by a combination of density functional …

Substrate induced strain field in FeRh epilayers grown on single crystal MgO (001) substrates

CW Barton, TA Ostler, D Huskisson, CJ Kinane… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Equi-atomic FeRh is highly unusual in that it undergoes a first order meta-magnetic phase
transition from an antiferromagnet to a ferromagnet above room temperature (T r≈ 370 K) …