Electrical control of the magnetic state of Fe

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 47, Issue 6 PART 1, 2011, Pages 1619-1622

  Gerhard, Lukas ^a   Yamada, Toyo Kazu ^a,b   Balashov, Timofey ^a   Taḱacs, Albert F ^c   Wesselink, Rien J H ^a,d   Däne, Markus ^e,f   Fechner, Michael ^e   Ostanin, Sergey ^e   Ernst, Arthur ^e   Mertig, Ingrid ^e,g   Wulfhekel, Wulf ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

^f OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hard disks; magnetic memory; magnetoelectric effects; scanning probe microscopy

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC FIELDS; HARD DISK STORAGE; IRON METALLOGRAPHY; MAGNETISM; MAGNETOELECTRIC EFFECTS; METALS; NONVOLATILE STORAGE; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

ELECTRICAL CONTROL; MAGNETIC MEMORY; MAGNETIC MEMORY DEVICES; MAGNETIC ORDER PARAMETER; MAGNETIC STATE; MAGNETOELECTRIC COUPLINGS; METALLIC SYSTEMS; NANO-METER SCALE;

MAGNETIC STORAGE;

EID: 79957872177     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2011.2107506     Document Type: Article

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