Universality of the Surface Magnetoelectric Effect in Half-metals

Authors

Chun-Gang Duan, East China Normal UniversityFollow
Ce-Wen Nan, Tsinghua University
Sitaram S. Jaswal, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Evgeny Y. Tsymbal, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

ORCID IDs

Tsymbal http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6728-5508

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2009

Citation

Physical Review B (2009) 79

Comments

Copyright © 2009, American Physical Society. Used by permission

Abstract

An electric field applied to a ferromagnetic metal produces a surface magnetoelectric effect originating from the spin-dependent screening of the electric field which results in a change in the surface magnetization of the ferromagnet.