Designing strong and tunable magnetoelectric coupling in 2D trilayer heterostructures

Jin, Xin; O’Hara, Andrew; Zhang, Yu-Yang; Du, Shixuan; Pantelides, Sokrates T.

doi:10.1088/2053-1583/ac9b6e

Designing strong and tunable magnetoelectric coupling in 2D trilayer heterostructures

Journal Article · 03 November 2022 · 2D Materials

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/ac9b6e· OSTI ID:2419281

Jin, Xin ^[1]; ; Zhang, Yu-Yang; ;

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Abstract

The quest for electric-field control of nanoscale magnetic states such as skyrmions, which would impact the field of spintronics, has led to a challenging search for multiferroic materials or structures with strong magnetoelectric coupling and efficient electric-field control. Here we report a theoretical prediction that such phenomena can be realized in two-dimensional (2D) bilayer FE/PMM and trilayer FE/PMM/FE heterostructures (two-terminal and three-terminal devices), where FE is a 2D ferroelectric and PMM is a polar magnetic metal with strong spin–orbit coupling. Such a PMM has strong Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions (DMI) that can generate skyrmions, while the FE can generate strong magnetoelectric coupling through polarization-polarization interactions. In trilayer heterostructures, contact to the metallic PMM layer enables multiple polarization configurations for electric-field control of skyrmions. We report density-functional-theory calculations for particular material choices that demonstrate the effectiveness of these arrangements, with the key driver being the polarization-polarization interactions between the PMM and FE layers. The present findings provide a method to achieve strong magnetoelectric coupling in the 2D limit and a new perspective for the design of related spintronics.

Research Organization:: Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

DOE Contract Number:: FG02-09ER46554;

OSTI ID:: 2419281

Journal Information:: 2D Materials, Journal Name: 2D Materials Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 10; ISSN 2053-1583

Publisher:: IOP Publishing

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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