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| author | Meng, Fanfan Van Meirvenne, Emma Luciano, Federica Wu, Xiangyu Deblock, Yves Banerjee, Kaustuv Rickhaus, Peter Ciubotaru, Florin Adelmann, Christoph |
| author_facet | Meng, Fanfan Van Meirvenne, Emma Luciano, Federica Wu, Xiangyu Deblock, Yves Banerjee, Kaustuv Rickhaus, Peter Ciubotaru, Florin Adelmann, Christoph |
| contents | Strain-mediated magnetoelectric (ME) heterostructures enable electric-field control of magnetism and are promising for ultra-low-power spintronic logic. Yet achieving spatially selective, low-voltage control in thin films and quantifying ME coupling across the full ferroelastic loop remains challenging. Here, we investigate sub-micrometer Ni/BPZT thin-film devices with laterally patterned gates that localize in-plane strain beneath the Ni stripe and modulate its magnetization. We use anisotropic magnetoresistance to measure magnetization changes across the ferroelastic loop under different magnetic bias fields. Combined with Multiphysics strain simulations and micromagnetic modeling, this provides a quantitative framework that captures the convolution of ferroelastic and magnetoelastic nonlinearities and provides critical insight for device design, while enabling multi-state, bias-field-free magnetization control for non-conventional computing. The extracted coupling coefficient in linear range is 1.3 mT/V across a 700 nm gap, with a clear pathway to improving voltage efficiency through device scaling, establishing a scalable CMOS-compatible platform for energy-efficient spintronic devices. |
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| spellingShingle | Nonlinear Strain-Mediated Magnetoelectric Coupling in Sub-Microscale Ni/BPZT Thin-Film Devices Meng, Fanfan Van Meirvenne, Emma Luciano, Federica Wu, Xiangyu Deblock, Yves Banerjee, Kaustuv Rickhaus, Peter Ciubotaru, Florin Adelmann, Christoph Applied Physics Strain-mediated magnetoelectric (ME) heterostructures enable electric-field control of magnetism and are promising for ultra-low-power spintronic logic. Yet achieving spatially selective, low-voltage control in thin films and quantifying ME coupling across the full ferroelastic loop remains challenging. Here, we investigate sub-micrometer Ni/BPZT thin-film devices with laterally patterned gates that localize in-plane strain beneath the Ni stripe and modulate its magnetization. We use anisotropic magnetoresistance to measure magnetization changes across the ferroelastic loop under different magnetic bias fields. Combined with Multiphysics strain simulations and micromagnetic modeling, this provides a quantitative framework that captures the convolution of ferroelastic and magnetoelastic nonlinearities and provides critical insight for device design, while enabling multi-state, bias-field-free magnetization control for non-conventional computing. The extracted coupling coefficient in linear range is 1.3 mT/V across a 700 nm gap, with a clear pathway to improving voltage efficiency through device scaling, establishing a scalable CMOS-compatible platform for energy-efficient spintronic devices. |
| title | Nonlinear Strain-Mediated Magnetoelectric Coupling in Sub-Microscale Ni/BPZT Thin-Film Devices |
| topic | Applied Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09795 |