- Zhang, Yuelin;
- Wang, Chuanshou;
- Huang, Houbing;
- Lu, Jingdi;
- Liang, Renrong;
- Liu, Jian;
- Peng, Renci;
- Zhang, Qintong;
- Zhang, Qinghua;
- Wang, Jing;
- Gu, Lin;
- Han, Xiu-Feng;
- Chen, Long-Qing;
- Ramesh, Ramamoorthy;
- Nan, Ce-Wen;
- Zhang, Jinxing
The ability to control magnetic vortex is critical for their potential applications in spintronic devices. Traditional methods including magnetic field, spin-polarized current etc. have been used to flip the core and/or reverse circulation of vortex. However, it is challenging for deterministic electric-field control of the single magnetic vortex textures with time-reversal broken symmetry and no planar magnetic anisotropy. Here it is reported that a deterministic reversal of single magnetic vortex circulation can be driven back and forth by a space-varying strain in multiferroic heterostructures, which is controlled by using a bi-axial pulsed electric field. Phase-field simulation reveals the mechanism of the emerging magnetoelastic energy with the space variation and visualizes the reversal pathway of the vortex. This deterministic electric-field control of the single magnetic vortex textures demonstrates a new approach to integrate the low-dimensional spin texture into the magnetoelectric thin film devices with low energy consumption.