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A displacement of magnetic domain walls under the effect of an electric field is observed in epitaxial ferrite garnet films (on substrates with the (210) orientation). The displacement of the domain walls changes to the opposite when the electric field changes sign, and it is independent of the direction of magnetization in the domains. The mechanism proposed for explaining the observed phenomenon is based on the inhomogeneous magnetoelectric effect.
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Original Russian Text © A.S. Logginov, G.A. Meshkov, A.V. Nikolaev, A.P. Pyatakov, 2007, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Éksperimental’noĭ i Teoreticheskoĭ Fiziki, 2007, Vol. 86, No. 2, pp. 124–127.
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Logginov, A.S., Meshkov, G.A., Nikolaev, A.V. et al. Magnetoelectric control of domain walls in a ferrite garnet film. Jetp Lett. 86, 115–118 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364007140093
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