Integrating magnetism into semiconductor electronics
The view of a ferromagnetic-semiconducting hybrid
structure as a single tunable system is presented. Based on an
analysis of existing experiments it is shown that, contrary to a
’common sense’, a nonmagnetic semiconductor is capable of
playing an important role in controlling ferromagnetism. Magnetic properties of a hybrid (the hysteresis loop and the spatial
orientation of magnetization) can be tuned both optically and
electrically by utilizing semiconductor—making the hybrid an
electronic-write-in and electronic-read-out elementary storage unit.
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