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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.

The use of spin-based phenomena is of great appeal for reliable information storage and computing as it enables non-volatile embedded memory, as well as more recently proposed neuromorphic and quantum computing strategies. Traditionally, spin-based devices use ferromagnets that have a single magnetic lattice and a macroscopic magnetization. Recently, systems with two magnetic sublattices oriented opposite to one another, such as antiferromagnets or ferrimagnets, have become of interest because of their robustness to magnetic field and their speed of operation1. Yet the manipulation of their magnetic order is challenging. Writing in Nature Nanotechnology, Mantao Huang et al.2 use solid-state hydrogen gating to show deterministic reversal of Néel and magnetization vectors in the ferrimagnet GdCo under ambient conditions.

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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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