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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 87, Issue 9, Pages 6400-6402Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.372719
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A stress-operated memory device consisting of an ellipsoidal magnetic particle array and an electrostrictive grid is proposed. In the device, the magnetic state of the particle can be controlled only by the magnetostriction effect. Each particle is located at the intersection of the grid and has an in-plane uniaxial anisotropy. A pair of electric contacts is connected to the end of each wire. In the writing process, the driving voltages are simultaneously applied to two pairs of the selected contacts. This allows to apply a local electric field whose direction and amplitude can be regulated by varying the voltage intensity and polarity. The exerting stress on the magnetic particle results in the linear magnetostriction and hence an additional anisotropy energy in the particle. The in-plane total energy minimum, corresponding to the magnetization direction, follows the local electric field. Consequently the magnetization of the single magnetic particle located at the intersection can therefore be selectively switched. (C) 2000 American Institute of Physics. [S0021-8979(00)55508-X].
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