Ferroelastic switching for nanoscale non-volatile magnetoelectric devices

Nature Materials

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 309-314

  Baek, S H ^a   Jang, H W ^a   Folkman, C M ^a   Li, Y L ^b   Winchester, B ^b   Zhang, J X ^c   He, Q ^c   Chu, Y H ^c   Nelson, C T ^d   Rzchowski, M S ^a   Pan, X Q ^d   Ramesh, R ^c   Chen, L Q ^b   Eom, C B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; FERROELECTRICITY; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ELECTRIC POLARIZATION; FERROELASTIC SWITCHING; LOW-SYMMETRY MATERIALS; MAGNETOELECTRIC COUPLINGS; MAGNETOELECTRIC DEVICES; MULTIPLE ORDER PARAMETERS; PHASE-FIELD SIMULATION; STRESS-INDUCED INSTABILITIES;

SWITCHING;

EID: 77950023254     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2703     Document Type: Article

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