@article{33580, keywords = {nanostructured materials, hysteresis, heterostructures, Domain walls, Ferroelectric materials, multiferroic, exchange bias, ferroelectricity, Ferroelectric domains, X ray crystallography, Dichroism, Coercive force, Cobalt, Magnetic domains, Semiconducting bismuth compounds, Domain structures, Nanoscale controls, Piezoresponse force microscopies, Magnetic thin films, Crystals, Coercive fields, Exchange enhancements, Large shifts, Nano-scale, X-ray magnetic circular dichroisms}, author = {L.W Martin and Y.-H Chu and M.B Holcomb and M Huijben and P Yu and S.-J Han and D Lee and S.X Wang and Ramamoorthy Ramesh}, title = {Nanoscale control of exchange bias with BiFeO 3 thin films}, abstract = {We demonstrate a direct correlation between the domain structure of multiferroic BiFeO 3 thin films and exchange bias of Co 0.9Fe 0.1/BiFeO 3 heterostructures. Two distinct types of interactions - an enhancement of the coercive field (exchange enhancement) and an enhancement of the coercive field combined with large shifts of the hysteresis loop (exchange bias) - have been observed in these heterostructures, which depend directly on the type and crystallography of the nanoscale (∼2 nm) domain walls in the BiFeO 3 film. We show that the magnitude of the exchange bias interaction scales with the length of 109° ferroelectric domain walls in the BiFeO 3 thin films which have been probed via piezoresponse force microscopy and X-ray magnetic circular dichroism. © 2008 American Chemical Society.}, year = {2008}, journal = {Nano Letters}, volume = {8}, number = {7}, pages = {2050-2055}, issn = {15306984}, doi = {10.1021/nl801391m}, note = {cited By 231}, language = {eng}, }