Electric field tunable 60 GHz ferromagnetic resonance response in barium ferrite-barium strontium titanate multiferroic heterostructures

Abstract

A magnetic-ferroelectric film heterostructure with a large electric field tuning of the ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) mode was fabricated. Pulse laser deposited 30 nm thick Pt electrodes and 3 μm thick barium strontium titanate films on Nb-doped strontium titanate substrates were capped with an unbonded 200 μm thick single crystal in-plane c-axis barium hexaferrite slab. The structure gives a 60 GHz FMR frequency shift of 16 MHz at a bias of 29 V, for an average response of 0.55 MHz/V. The maximum incremental tuning response at 29 V was 1.3 MHz/V. This is a hundredfold improvement over previous results.