Deterministic switching of ferromagnetism at room temperature using an electric field

Nature

Volumn 516, Issue 7531, 2014, Pages 370-373

  Heron, J T ^a   Bosse, J L ^b   He, Q ^c   Gao, Y ^d,e   Trassin, M ^f   Ye, L ^b   Clarkson, J D ^g   Wang, C ^h   Liu, Jian ^d   Salahuddin, S ⁱ   Ralph, D C ^h,j   Schlom, D G ^a,j   Iniguez J ^k   Huey, B D ^b   Ramesh, R ^d,g,l  

^a School of Chemical and Molecular Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^g No 1760   (United States)

^h Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science ^*  (United States)

^k INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA DE MATERIALS DE BARCELONA ICMAB CSIC   (Spain)

^l LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIZATION; POLARIZATION; REACTION KINETICS; THERMODYNAMICS; TORQUE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC FIELD; KINETICS; MAGNETISM; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; ROTATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; TORQUE;

EID: 84923082703     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14004     Document Type: Article

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