Berlin 2012 – scientific programme

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KR: Fachgruppe Kristallographie

KR 5: Poster I – including Multiferroics (MA with DF, DS, KR, TT)

KR 5.38: Poster

Tuesday, March 27, 2012, 12:15–15:15, Poster A

Electric field controlled manipulation of the magnetization in BaTiO₃ based ferroelectric/ferromagnetic hybrid structures — •Stephan Geprägs, Matthias Opel, Sebastian T. B. Goennenwein, and Rudolf Gross — Walther-Meißner-Institut, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Garching

Multiferroic materials, which simultaneously possess at least two long-range ordering phenomena in the same phase, have attracted widespread interest over the last years. In particular, the coexistence and cross-coupling of ferroelectric and ferromagnetic ordering in magnetoelectric multiferroics could offer the possibility to electrically read and write the magnetic state in future non-volatile memory cells. Unfortunately, these materials are scarce in nature. Attractive alternatives are composite material systems, in which ferromagnetic and ferroelectric compounds are combined. Such extrinsic multiferroic structures enable large and robust magnetoelectric effects at room temperature due to the elastic coupling between the ferroic constituents.

Here, we report on the electric field control of the magnetization in ferromagnetic/ferroelectric hybrid structures based on BaTiO₃ single crystals, using different materials as ferromagnetic layer, such as polycrystalline Ni and Fe₅₀Co₅₀ as well as epitaxial Fe₃O₄ and Sr₂CrReO₆ thin films. In these hybrid structures, reversible and irreversible changes of the magnetization as a function of the applied electric field were found, which are discussed in the framework of a theoretical model based on molecular dynamics simulations.