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Integration of amorphous ferromagnetic oxides with multiferroic materials for room temperature magnetoelectric spintronics

  • Humaira Taz
  • , Bhagwati Prasad*
  • , Yen Lin Huang
  • , Zuhuang Chen
  • , Shang Lin Hsu
  • , Ruijuan Xu
  • , Vishal Thakare
  • , Tamil Selvan Sakthivel
  • , Chenze Liu
  • , Mark Hettick
  • , Rupam Mukherjee
  • , Sudipta Seal
  • , Lane W. Martin
  • , Ali Javey
  • , Gerd Duscher
  • , Ramamoorthy Ramesh
  • , Ramki Kalyanaraman
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • University of California at Berkeley
  • University of Tennessee
  • Harbin Institute of Technology
  • University of Central Florida
  • University of Tennessee
  • Lovely Professional University
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Abstract

A room temperature amorphous ferromagnetic oxide semiconductor can substantially reduce the cost and complexity associated with utilizing crystalline materials for spintronic devices. We report a new material (Fe0.66Dy0.24Tb0.1)3O7-x (FDTO), which shows semiconducting behavior with reasonable electrical conductivity (~500 mOhm-cm), an optical band-gap (2.4 eV), and a large enough magnetic moment (~200 emu/cc), all of which can be tuned by varying the oxygen content during deposition. Magnetoelectric devices were made by integrating ultrathin FDTO with multiferroic BiFeO3. A strong enhancement in the magnetic coercive field of FDTO grown on BiFeO3 validated a large exchange coupling between them. Additionally, FDTO served as an excellent top electrode for ferroelectric switching in BiFeO3 with no sign of degradation after ~1010 switching cycles. RT magneto-electric coupling was demonstrated by modulating the resistance states of spin-valve structures using electric fields.

Original languageEnglish
Article number3583
JournalScientific Reports
Volume10
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2020
Externally publishedYes

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