Magneto-elektrische verbindingen voor spintronische toepassingen

Spintronics devices have potential in future ultralow power applications. Currently the control of magnets by spin-transfer or spin-orbit torques has a high energy consumption. Multiferroic magnetoelectric materials, and laminate composites with a layer of piezoelectric material and a layer of magnetostrictive material, could allow for low energy transducers for the control of magnets. The research will focus on the optimisation such compound materials by studying the materials science and basic physics of devices at the nanoscale.