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most citedFerroelectric control of magnetic skyrmions in two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures

95 citations · 188 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Purely Electric-Field Control of Topological Magnetism in Two-Dimensional Magnets

Zhonglin He, Naafis Ahnaf Shahed, Kai Huang +2

Electrical control of topological magnetism is central to realizing energy-efficient topological spintronics. Yet most electric-field approaches modify the competing magnetic inter…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Exchange Frustration and Topological Magnetism in Electrostatically Doped SrRuO3

Naafis Ahnaf Shahed, Himanshu Mavani, Zhonglin He +3

Magnetism in transition-metal systems emerges from exchange interactions that depend sensitively on carrier density. Yet leveraging this sensitivity to deliberately engineer exchan…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Competing Antiferromagnetic Phases in Multiferroic Wurtzite Transition-Metal Chalcogenides

Himanshu Mavani, Mohamed Elekhtiar, Kai Huang +2

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics offers a pathway toward electrically controllable spin-based devices beyond ferromagnets. Here, we identify wurtzite MnX (X = S, Se, Te) as a fa…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Two-dimensional antiferromagnets with non-relativistic spin splitting switchable by electric polarization

Himanshu Mavani, Kai Huang, Kartik Samanta +1

Spin-split antiferromagnets have significance for antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics due to their momentum dependent spin polarization which can be exploited for the control and d…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 13 cited

Prediction of polarization vortices, charge modulation, flat bands, and moiré magnetism in twisted oxide bilayers

Naafis Ahnaf Shahed, Kartik Samanta, Mohamed Elekhtiar +5

The recent surge of interest in moiré superlattices of twisted van der Waals compounds has spotlighted the emergence of unconventional superconductivity and novel electronic phases…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Two-dimensional non-volatile valley spin valve

Kai Huang, Kartik Samanta, Ding-Fu Shao +1

A spin valve represents a well-established device concept in magnetic memory technologies, whose functionality is determined by electron transmission being controlled by the relati…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

First-principles investigation of the emergence of multiferroicity and skyrmions in CrI2

Khimananda Acharya, Kai Huang, Evgeny Y. Tsymbal +1

The recently discovered van der Waals magnetic semiconductor CrI2 shows promise for spintronic applications. Its electronic and magnetic properties are known to be strongly influen…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Antiferroelectric Hafnia Down to the 2D Limit

Xin Li, Guodong Ren, Haidong Lu +16

Antiferroelectricity is a material property characterized by alternating electric dipoles spontaneously ordered in antiparallel directions. Antiferroelectrics are promising for ene…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 24 cited

Magnetic Antiskyrmions in Two-Dimensional van der Waals Magnets Engineered by Layer Stacking

Kai Huang, Edward Schwartz, Ding-Fu Shao +2

Magnetic skyrmions and antiskyrmions are topologically protected quasiparticles exhibiting a whirling spin texture in real space. Antiskyrmions offer some advantages over skyrmions…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 56 cited

Switchable anomalous Hall effects in polar-stacked 2D antiferromagnet MnBi2Te4

Tengfei Cao, Ding-Fu Shao, Kai Huang +2

Van der Waals (vdW) assembly allows controlling symmetry of two-dimensional (2D) materials that determines their physical properties. Especially interesting is the recently demonst…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 95 cited

Ferroelectric control of magnetic skyrmions in two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures

Kai Huang, Ding-Fu Shao, Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Magnetic skyrmions are chiral nanoscale spin textures which are usually induced by Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). Recently, magnetic skyrmions have been observed in two-d…