- Sun, Ying;
- Ba, You;
- Chen, Aitian;
- He, Wei;
- Wang, Wenbo;
- Zheng, Xiaoli;
- Zou, Lvkuan;
- Zhang, Yijun;
- Yang, Qu;
- Yan, Lingjia;
- Feng, Ce;
- Zhang, Qinghua;
- Cai, Jianwang;
- Wu, Weida;
- Liu, Ming;
- Gu, Lin;
- Cheng, Zhaohua;
- Nan, Ce-Wen;
- Qiu, Ziqiang;
- Wu, Yizheng;
- Li, Jia;
- Zhao, Yonggang
We report electric-field control of magnetism of (Co/Pt)3 multilayers involving perpendicular magnetic anisotropy with different Co-layer thicknesses grown on Pb(Mg,Nb)O3-PbTiO3 (PMN-PT) FE substrates. For the first time, electric-field control of the interface magnetic anisotropy, which results in the spin reorientation transition, was demonstrated. The electric-field-induced changes of the bulk and interface magnetic anisotropies can be understood by considering the strain-induced change of magnetoelastic energy and weakening of Pt 5d-Co 3d hybridization, respectively. We also demonstrate the role of competition between the applied magnetic field and the electric field in determining the magnetization of the sample with the coexistence phase. Our results demonstrate electric-field control of magnetism by harnessing the strain-mediated coupling in multiferroic heterostructures with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and are helpful for electric-field modulations of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and Rashba effect at interfaces to engineer new functionalities.