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Electrically defined ferromagnetic nanodots
Daichi Chiba1, Fumihiro Matsukura, Hideo Ohno
1Laboratory for Nanoelectronics and Spintronics, Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8577, Japan.
Abstract:
While ferromagnetic nanodots are being widely studied from fundamental as well as application points of views, so far all the dots have been physically defined; once made, one cannot change their dimension or size. We show that ferromagnetic nanodots can be electrically defined. To realize this, we utilize an electric field to modulate the in-plane distribution of carriers in a ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As film with a meshed gate structure having a large number of nanoscaled windows.
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