Magnetoelectric coupling and electric control of magnetization in ferromagnet/ferroelectric/normal-metal superlattices

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 14, 2009, Pages

  Cai, Tianyi ^a,b   Ju, Sheng ^c   Lee, Jaekwang ^a   Sai, Na ^a   Demkov, Alexander A ^a   Niu, Qian ^a   Li, Zhenya ^c   Shi, Junren ^b   Wang, Enge ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^c SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 71249129934     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.140415     Document Type: Article

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