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    Wang, Yadong; Wang, Lei; Xia, Jing; Lai, Zhengxun; Tian, Guo; Zhang, Xichao; Hou, Zhipeng; Gao, Xingsen; Mi, Wenbo; Feng, Chun; Zeng, Min; Zhou, Guofu; Yu, Guanghua; Wu, Guangheng; Zhou, Yan; Wang, Wenhong; Zhang, Xi-Xiang; Liu, Junming

    Nature communications, 07/2020, Volume: 11, Issue: 1
    Journal Article

    Electrical manipulation of skyrmions attracts considerable attention for its rich physics and promising applications. To date, such a manipulation is realized mainly via spin-polarized current based on spin-transfer torque or spin-orbital torque effect. However, this scheme is energy consuming and may produce massive Joule heating. To reduce energy dissipation and risk of heightened temperatures of skyrmion-based devices, an effective solution is to use electric field instead of current as stimulus. Here, we realize an electric-field manipulation of skyrmions in a nanostructured ferromagnetic/ferroelectrical heterostructure at room temperature via an inverse magneto-mechanical effect. Intriguingly, such a manipulation is non-volatile and exhibits a multistate feature. Numerical simulations indicate that the electric-field manipulation of skyrmions originates from strain-mediated modification of effective magnetic anisotropy and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. Our results open a direction for constructing low-energy-dissipation, non-volatile, and multistate skyrmion-based spintronic devices.