Abstract
Electrically driven magnetic switching (EDMS) is highly demanded for next-generation advanced memories or spintronic devices. The key challenge is to achieve repeatable and reversible EDMS at sufficiently small scale. In this work, we reported an experimental realization of room-temperature, electrically driven, reversible, and robust 120° magnetic state rotation in nanoscale multiferroic heterostructures consisting of a triangular Co nanomagnet array on tetragonal BiFeO3 films, which can be directly monitored by magnetic force microscope (MFM) imaging. The observed reversible magnetic switching in an individual nanomagnet can be triggered by a small electric pulse within 10 V with an ultrashort time of ∼10 ns, which also demonstrates sufficient switching cycling and months-long retention lifetime. A mechanism based on synergic effects of interfacial strain and exchange coupling plus shape anisotropy was also proposed, which was also verified by micromagnetic simulations. Our results create an avenue to engineer the nanoscale EDMS for low-power-consumption, high-density, nonvolatile magnetoelectric memories and beyond.
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