The Prototype of An Antiferromagnetic Magnetoelectric Memory Chip (IMAGE)

Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf

The Prototype of An Antiferromagnetic Magnetoelectric Memory Chip

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It consists of a thin layer of chromium oxide (Cr2O3) for saving data, on top of which the physicists from Dresden and Basel attached a nanometer-thin platinum layer for read out.

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Illustration: T. Kosub/HZDR

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