Title
Magnetoelectric control of spin currents
Date Issued
13 June 2016
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Gómez J.
Vargas J.
Butera A.
Instituto de Nanociencia y Nanotecnología
Publisher(s)
American Institute of Physics Inc.
Abstract
The ability to control the spin current injection has been explored on a hybrid magnetoelectric system consisting of a (011)-cut ferroelectric lead magnesium niobate-lead titanate (PMNT) single crystal, a ferromagnetic FePt alloy, and a metallic Pt. With this PMNT/FePt/Pt structure we have been able to control the magnetic field position or the microwave excitation frequency at which the spin pumping phenomenon between FePt and Pt occurs. We demonstrate that the magnetoelectric heterostructure operating in the L-T (longitudinal magnetized-transverse polarized) mode couples the PMNT crystal to the magnetostrictive FePt/Pt bilayer, displaying a strong magnetoelectric coefficient of ∼140 Oe cm kV-1. Our results show that this mechanism can be effectively exploited as a tunable spin current intensity emitter and open the possibility to create an oscillating or a bistable switch to effectively manipulate spin currents.
Volume
108
Issue
24
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Nano-materiales Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84975322186
Source
Applied Physics Letters
ISSN of the container
00036951
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