Giant electrical modulation of magnetization in Co40 Fe 40 B20/Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)0.7 Ti0.3O3 (011)heterostructure

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Zhang, Sen ^a,b   Zhao, Yonggang ^a,c   Xiao, Xia ^d   Wu, Yizheng ^d   Rizwan, Syed ^e   Yang, Lifeng ^a   Li, Peisen ^a   Wang, Jiawei ^a   Zhu, Meihong ^a   Zhang, Huiyun ^a   Jin, Xiaofeng ^d   Han, Xiufeng ^e  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter ^*  (China)

^d FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

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EID: 84892723929     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03727     Document Type: Article

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