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Switching with ions

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Solid-state hydrogen gating of a ferrimagnetic metal enables independent reversal of Néel and magnetization vectors by an electric field.

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Fig. 1: Reversal of a net magnetization and Néel vector in a ferrimagnet using solid-state ionic gating.

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Trassin, M., Heron, J.T. Switching with ions. Nat. Nanotechnol. 16, 953–954 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-021-00938-9

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