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Nature Materials 8, 634–638 (1 August 2009) | doi:10.1038/nmat2492

Periodic rotation of magnetization in a non-centrosymmetric soft magnet induced by|[nbsp]|an|[nbsp]|electric field

M. Saito , K. Ishikawa , S. Konno , K. Taniguchi & T. Arima

The control of magnetism with an electric field is a challenging area with the potential to affect fields related to magnetic data storage, sensors and magnetic random access memory. Although there are some successful examples of such control based on the use of magnetic metals and semiconductors, energy loss caused by current flow is a problem that needs to be addressed.