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most citedFerroelectric control of the spin texture in germanium telluride

189 citations · 627 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Valence Modifications in Hygroscopic VI3 Degraded Crystals via Soft X-Ray Synchrotron Radiation

A. De Vita, V. Polewczyk, G. Panaccione +1

Among van der Waals crystals, transition metal trihalide VI3 has driven attention for its magnetic and orbital properties. However, its chemical instability under ambient condition…

cond-mat.str-el2025★ 2 cited

Robust spin splitting and fermiology in a layered altermagnet

Alessandro De Vita, Chiara Bigi, Davide Romanin +42

Altermagnetism defies conventional classifications of collinear magnetic phases, standing apart from ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism with its unique combination of spin-depen…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 2 cited

Thermal treatment effects on PMN-0.4PT/Fe multiferroic heterostructures

Deepak Dagur, Alice Margherita Finardi, Vincent Polewczyk +10

Multiferroic heterostructures have gained in recent years a renewed role in spintronic applications due to their possibility in controlling the magnetic properties via interfacial…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 6 cited

Uncovering the lowest thickness limit for room-temperature ferromagnetism of CrTe

Sandeep Kumar Chaluvadi, Shyni Punathum Chalil, Anupam Jana +14

Metallic ferromagnetic transition metal dichalcogenides have emerged as important building blocks for scalable magnonics and memory applications. Downscaling such systems to the ul…

physics.app-ph2024★ 9 cited

Laser patterning of magnonic structure via local crystallization of Yittrium Iron Garnet

A. Del Giacco, F. Maspero, V. Levati +15

The fabrication and integration of high-quality structures of Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) is critical for magnonics.Films with excellent properties are obtained only on single crysta…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 3 cited

Evidence of temperature-dependent interplay between spin and orbital moment in van der Waals ferromagnet VI3

A. De Vita, R. Sant, V. Polewczyk +7

Van der Waals materials provide a versatile toolbox for the emergence of new quantum phenomena and the fabrication of functional heterostructures. Among them, the trihalide VI3 sta…

physics.optics2023★ 9 cited

Multidetection scheme for transient-grating-based spectroscopy

M. Brioschi, P. Carrara, V. Polewczyk +7

Time-resolved optical spectroscopy represents an effective non-invasive approach to investigate the interplay of different degrees of freedom, which plays a key role in the develop…

cond-mat.str-el2023

Observation of termination-dependent topological connectivity in a magnetic Weyl kagome-lattice

Federico Mazzola, Stefan Enzner, Philipp Eck +20

Engineering surfaces and interfaces of materials promises great potential in the field of heterostructures and quantum matter designer, with the opportunity of driving new many-bod…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 6 cited

Anisotropic hybridization probed by polarization dependent x-ray absorption spectroscopy in VI3 van der Waals Mott ferromagnet

R. Sant, A. De Vita, V. Polewczyk +6

Polarization dependent x-ray absorption spectroscopy was used to study the magnetic ground state and the orbital occupation in bulk-phase VI van der Waals crystals below and ab…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Artificial ageing of thin films of the indium-free transparent conducting oxide SrVO3

M. Rath, M. Mezhoud, O. El Khaloufi +11

SrVO3 (SVO) is a prospective candidate to replace the conventional indium-tin-oxide (ITO) among the new transparent conducting oxide (TCO) generation. In this study, the structural…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 12 cited

Covalency, correlations, and inter-layer interactions governing the magnetic and electronic structure of MnSiTe

Chiara Bigi, Lei Qiao, Chao Liu +16

MnSiTe is a rare example of a layered ferrimagnet. It has recently been shown to host a colossal angular magnetoresistance as the spin orientation is rotated from the i…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 35 cited

Strain-induced magnetization control in an oxide multiferroic heterostructure

Federico Motti, Giovanni Vinai, Aleksandr Petrov +6

Controlling magnetism by using electric fields is a goal of research towards novel spintronic devices and future nano-electronics. For this reason, multiferroic heterostructures at…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 103 cited

Magnetic Transition in Monolayer VSe2 via Interface Hybridization

Wen Zhang, Lei Zhang, Ping Kwan Johnny Wong +6

Magnetism in monolayer (ML) VSe2 has attracted broad interest in spintronics while existing reports have not reached consensus. Using element-specific X-ray magnetic circular dichr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 154 cited

Evidence of Spin Frustration in Vanadium Diselenide Monolayer Magnet

Ping Kwan Johnny Wong, Wen Zhang, Fabio Bussolotti +22

Monolayer VSe2, featuring both charge density wave and magnetism phenomena, represents a unique van der Waals magnet in the family of metallic two-dimensional transition-metal dich…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 26 cited

The planar triangular magnet AgCrSe: magnetic frustration, short range correlations, and field tuned anisotropic cycloidal magnetic order

M. Baenitz, M. M. Piva, S. Luther +25

Our studies evidence an anisotropic magnetic order below ~K. Susceptibility data in small fields of about 1~T reveal an antiferromagnetic (AFM) order for , whe…

cond-mat.str-el2021

Metal to insulator transition at the surface of thin films: an in-situ view

Marco Caputo, Jasmin Jandke, Edoardo Cappelli +12

has long been studied as a prototypical strongly correlated material. The difficulty in obtaining clean, well ordered surfaces, however, hindered the use of surface sensit…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 31 cited

Proximity-induced ferromagnetism and chemical reactivity in few layers VSe2 heterostructures

G. Vinai, C. Bigi, A. Rajan +11

Among Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides, mono and few-layers thick VSe2 has gained much recent attention following claims of intrinsic room-temperature ferromagnetism in this system…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 20 cited

Room temperature biaxial magnetic anisotropy in La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 thin films on SrTiO3 buffered MgO (001) substrates for spintronic applications

Sandeep Kumar Chaluvadi, Fernando Ajejas, Pasquale Orgiani +8

Spintronics exploits the magnetoresistance effects to store or sense the magnetic information. Since the magnetoresistance strictly depends on the magnetic anisotropy of the system…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 20 cited

Tailoring ferromagnetism through electrically controlled morphology

Giovanni Vinai, Federico Motti, Valentina Bonanni +5

Converse magnetoelectric coupling in artificial multiferroics is generally modelled through three possible mechanisms: charge transfer, strain mediated or ion migration. Here we de…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 189 cited

Ferroelectric control of the spin texture in germanium telluride

C. Rinaldi, S. Varotto, M. Asa +9

The electrical manipulation of spins in semiconductors, without magnetic fields or auxiliary ferromagnetic materials, represents the holy grail for spintronics. The use of Rashba e…