Abstract
The ability to control magnetism of materials via electric field enables a myriad of technological innovations in information storage, sensing, and computing. We use ionic-liquid-assisted ferroelectric switching to demonstrate reversible modulation of interfacial magnetism in a multiferroic heterostructure composed of ferromagnetic (FM) La0.8Sr0.2MnO3 and ferroelectric (FE) PbZr0.2Ti0.8O3. It is shown that ionic liquids can be used to persistently and reversibly switch a large area of a FE film. This is a prerequisite for polarized neutron reflectometry (PNR) studies that are conducted to directly probe magnetoelectric coupling of the FE polarization to the interfacial magnetization.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1665-1669 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Nano Letters |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 8 2017 |
Keywords
- Magnetoelectric coupling
- ferroelectric field effect
- ionic liquid gating
- polarized neutron reflectometry
- strongly correlated oxide