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Integrated magnetoelectric devices: Filters, pico-Tesla magnetometers, and ultracompact acoustic antennas

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Strong strain-mediated magnetoelectric (ME) coupling in magnetic/ferroelectric heterostructures has great potential for different high-frequency multiferroic devices. In this article, we present the most recent progress in integrated multiferroic devices. Integrated magnetic tunable inductors with a wide operation frequency range, integrated nonreciprocal bandpass filters with dual magnetic and electric-field tunability based on magnetostatics surface waves, and novel radio-frequency nanomechanical ME resonators with pico-Tesla sensitivity for direct current magnetic fields are presented. Finally, a new antenna miniaturization mechanism, acoustically actuated nanomechanical ME antennas, which can successfully miniaturize the size by 1–2 orders, is introduced. With the advantages of high magnetic field sensitivity, highest antenna gain among all nanoscale antennas at similar frequency, integrated capability with complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology, and ground-plane immunity from metallic surfaces and the human body, ME antennas have a bright future for biomedical applications, wearable antennas, and the Internet of Things due to their unique and particular properties.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by DARPA through Award D15PC00009, the W.M. Keck Foundation, the NSF TANMS ERC Award 1160504, and in part by the AFRL through Contract FA8650–14-C-5706. Microfabrication was performed in the George J. Kostas Nanoscale Technology and Manufacturing Research Center.

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  1. NSF ERC Center for Translational Applications of Nanoscale Multiferroic Systems, USA

    Hwaider Lin

  2. Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, USA

    Michael R. Page

  3. Air Force Research Laboratory, Functional Materials Division, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, USA

    Michael McConney

  4. Air Force Research Laboratory, Nanoelectronics Materials Branch, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, USA

    John Jones

  5. Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Nanoelectronic Materials Branch, USA

    Brandon Howe

  6. Winchester Technologies LLC, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, W.M. Keck Laboratory for Integrated Ferroics, Northeastern University, 2D Multiferroics, NSF ERC Transitional Applications of Nanoscale Multiferroic Systems, USA

    Nian X. Sun

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Lin, H., Page, M.R., McConney, M. et al. Integrated magnetoelectric devices: Filters, pico-Tesla magnetometers, and ultracompact acoustic antennas. MRS Bulletin 43, 841–847 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1557/mrs.2018.257

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