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Ramamoorthy Ramesh and Chan-Ho Yang, DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Caption: Ramamoorthy Ramesh and Chan-Ho Yang of Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division successfully demonstrated that electric fields can be used as ON/OFF switches in doped multiferroic films, a development that holds promise for future magnetic data storage and spintronic devices.

Credit: Photograph by Roy Kaltschmidt, Berkeley Lab Public Affairs

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