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Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 126601 (2005) [4 pages]

Electric Field Effect in Diluted Magnetic Insulator Anatase Co:  TiO2

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T. Zhao1,*,†, S. R. Shinde2, S. B. Ogale1,2,‡, H. Zheng1, T. Venkatesan2, R. Ramesh3,§, and S. Das Sarma4
1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
2Center for Superconductivity Research, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
3Department of Physics and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
4Condensed Matter Theory Center, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA

Received 6 April 2004; revised 6 December 2004; published 1 April 2005

An external electric field induced reversible modulation of a room temperature magnetic moment and coercive field is achieved in an epitaxial and insulating thin film of dilutely cobalt-doped anatase TiO2. This first demonstration of an electric field effect in any oxide-based diluted ferromagnet is realized in a high quality epitaxial heterostructure of PbZr0.2Ti0.8O3/Co:  TiO2/SrRuO3 grown on (001) LaAlO3. The observed effect, which is about 15% in strength in a given heterostructure, can be modulated over several cycles. Possible mechanisms for electric field induced modulation of insulating ferromagnetism are discussed.

© 2005 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.126601
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.126601
PACS:
85.30.Tv, 75.50.Pp, 75.70.–i

*Email address: tongzhao@berkeley.edu

Now at University of CA, Berkeley.

Email address: ogale@squid.umd.edu

§On leave from University of MD, College Park.