Room-temperature 2D multiferroic metal exhibits both electric polarization/ magnetic order, for spintronic memory/ logic devices

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1119888

" electrical writing/ magnetic reading, where electric field controls magnetic states... more energy-efficient than using electrical currents... combines antiferromagnetic/ ferromagnetic chromium telluride bilayers, breaking material's inversion symmetry, inducing spontaneous ferroelectric polarization... strong magnetoelectric coupling... interlayer charge-asymmetry mechanism, compatible with existing CMOS manufacturing... highly energy-efficient single-phase multiferroics at the atomic scale"