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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-67776-y
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- Center for Probabilistic Spin Logic for Low-Energy Boolean and NonBoolean Computing (CAPSL), one of the Nanoelectronic Computing Research (nCORE) Centers [2759.003, 2759.004]
- Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) program - NSF [CCF 1739635]
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Taking advantage of the magnetoelectric and its inverse effect, this article demonstrates strain-mediated magnetoelectric write and read operations simultaneously in Co60Fe20B20/Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)(0.7)Ti0.3O3 heterostructures based on a pseudo-magnetization mu equivalent to m(x)(2)-m(y)(2). By applying an external DC-voltage across a (011)-cut PMN-PT substrate, the ferroelectric polarization is re-oriented, which results in an anisotropic in-plane strain that transfers to the CoFeB thin film and changes its magnetic anisotropy H-k. The change in H-k in-turn results in a 90 degrees rotation of the magnetic easy axis for sufficiently high voltages. Simultaneously, the inverse effect is employed to read changes of the magnetic properties. The change of magnetization in ferromagnetic (FM) layer induces an elastic stress in the piezoelectric (PE) layer, which generates a PE potential that can be used to readout the magnetic state of the FM layer. The experimental results are in excellent qualitative agreement with an equivalent circuit model that considers how magnetic properties are electrically controlled in such a PE/FM heterostructure and how a back-voltage is generated due to changing magnetic properties in a self-consistent model. We demonstrated that a change of easy axis of magnetization due to an applied voltage can be directly used for information processing, which is essential for future ME based devices.
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