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most citedTuning the Curie temperature of a 2D magnet/topological insulator heterostructure to above room temperature by epitaxial growth

14 citations · 31 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Two Strategies to Measure Spin-Orbit-Torque Efficiency Acting on the Insulating Magnet LiAlFeO

Orion Smedley, Thow Min Jerald Cham, Daisy O'Mahoney +10

For insulating magnets, widely-used electrically-based techniques to measure spin-orbit-torque efficiency can suffer from poor signal-to-noise ratios and unwanted artifacts, while…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Stabilizing Magnetic Bubble Domains in Epitaxial 2D Magnet/Topological Insulator Heterostructures through Interfacial Interactions

Thow Min Jerald Cham, Mowen Zhao, Wenyi Zhou +14

Epitaxial heterostructures of two-dimensional van der Waals magnets and topological insulators offer a powerful platform for probing interfacial spin interactions that govern magne…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Control of out-of-plane anti-damping spin torque with a canted ferromagnetic spin source

Xiaoxi Huang, Daniel A. Pharis, Hang Zhou +13

To achieve efficient anti-damping switching of nanoscale magnetic memories with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy using spin-orbit torque requires that the anti-damping spin-orbit…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Turn-on of Current-Induced Spin Torque upon Noncollinear Antiferromagnetic Ordering in Delafossite PdCrO2

Xiaoxi Huang, Qi Song, Gautam Gurung +10

We report measurements of the current-induced spin torque produced by the delafossite antiferromagnet PdCrO2 and acting on an adjacent ferromagnetic permalloy layer. The spin torqu…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 1 cited

Spin-filter tunneling detection of antiferromagnetic resonance with electrically-tunable damping

Thow Min Jerald Cham, Daniel G. Chica, Xiaoxi Huang +5

Antiferromagnetic spintronics offers the potential for higher-frequency operations and improved insensitivity to magnetic fields compared to ferromagnetic spintronics. However, pre…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 14 cited

Tuning the Curie temperature of a 2D magnet/topological insulator heterostructure to above room temperature by epitaxial growth

Wenyi Zhou, Alexander J. Bishop, Xiyue S. Zhang +10

Heterostructures of two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) magnets and topological insulators (TI) are of substantial interest as candidate materials for efficient spin-torque sw…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023

Sagnac interferometry for high-sensitivity optical measurements of spin-orbit torque

Saba Karimeddiny, Thow Min Jerald Cham, Orion Smedley +2

Sagnac interferometry can provide a significant improvement in signal-to-noise ratio compared to conventional magnetic imaging based on the magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE). We s…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 1 cited

Exchange bias between van der Waals materials: tilted magnetic states and field-free spin-orbit-torque switching

Thow Min Jerald Cham, Reiley J. Dorrian, Xiyue S. Zhang +7

Magnetic van der Waals heterostructures provide a unique platform to study magnetism and spintronics device concepts in the two-dimensional limit. Here, we report studies of exchan…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 2 cited

Anisotropic Gigahertz Antiferromagnetic Resonances of the Easy-Axis van der Waals Antiferromagnet CrSBr

Thow Min Jerald Cham, Saba Karimeddiny, Avalon H. Dismukes +3

We report measurements of antiferromagnetic resonances in the van der Waals easy-axis antiferromagnet CrSBr. The interlayer exchange field and magnetocrystalline anisotropy fields…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 10 cited

Separation of Artifacts from Spin-Torque Ferromagnetic Resonance Measurements of Spin-Orbit Torque for the Low-Symmetry van der Waals Semi-Metal ZrTe

Thow Min Cham, Saba Karimeddiny, Vishakha Gupta +2

We measure spin-orbit torque generated by exfoliated layers of the low-symmetry semi-metal ZrTe using the spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance (ST-FMR) technique. When the ZrTe$…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 3 cited

Sagnac interferometry for high-sensitivity optical measurements of spin-orbit torque

Saba Karimeddiny, Thow Min Cham, Daniel C. Ralph +1

We adapt Sagnac interferometry for magneto-optic Kerr effect measurements of spin-orbit-torque-induced magnetic tilting in thin-film magnetic samples. The high sensitivity of Sagna…