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most citedElectric field driven switching of individual magnetic skyrmions

370 citations · 950 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Room temperature magnetic vortices in the van der Waals magnet FeGeTe

Elias Sfeir, Carolin Schrader, Florentin Fabre +8

We investigate the effect of confinement on the magnetic state of a 12 nm-thick FeGeTe layer grown by molecular beam epitaxy. We use quantitative scanning NV magnetometry t…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Thermal spin wave noise as a probe for the Dzyaloshinkii-Moriya interaction

Aurore Finco, Pawan Kumar, Van Tuong Pham +6

Interfacial Dzyaloshinkii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is a key ingredient in the stabilization of chiral magnetic states in thin films. Its sign and strength often determine crucial p…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 2 cited

Laser patterning of the room temperature van der Waals ferromagnet 1-CrTe

Tristan Riccardi, Suman Sarkar, Anike Purbawati +19

Lamellar crystalline materials, whose layers are bond by van der Waals forces, can be stacked to form ultrathin artificial heterostructures, and in particular vertical magnetic jun…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Magnetic imaging under high pressure with a spin-based quantum sensor integrated in a van der Waals heterostructure

Z. Mu, J. Fraunié, A. Durand +15

Pressure is a powerful thermodynamic parameter for tuning the magnetic properties of van der Waals magnets owing to their weak interlayer bonding. However, local magnetometry measu…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 121 cited

Fast current-induced skyrmion motion in synthetic antiferromagnets

Van Tuong Pham, Naveen Sisodia, Ilaria Di Manici +14

Magnetic skyrmions are topological magnetic textures that hold great promise as nanoscale bits of information in memory and logic devices. Although room-temperature ferromagnetic s…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023

Single spin magnetometry and relaxometry applied to antiferromagnetic materials

Aurore Finco, Vincent Jacques

Despite the considerable interest for antiferromagnets which appeared with the perspective of using them for spintronics, their experimental study, including the imaging of antifer…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 14 cited

Stability of the In-Plane Room Temperature van der Waals Ferromagnet Chromium Ditelluride and Its Conversion to Chromium-Interleaved CrTe Compounds

Anike Purbawati, Suman Sarkar, Sébastien Pairis +19

Van der Waals magnetic materials are building blocks for novel kinds of spintronic devices and playgrounds for exploring collective magnetic phenomena down to the two-dimensional l…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 69 cited

Magnetic imaging with spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride

P. Kumar, F. Fabre, A. Durand +13

Optically-active spin defects hosted in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) are promising candidates for the development of a two-dimensional (2D) quantum sensing unit. Here, we demonstr…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 1 cited

Imaging topological defects in a non-collinear antiferromagnet

Aurore Finco, Angela Haykal, Stéphane Fusil +9

We report on the formation of topological defects emerging from the cycloidal antiferromagnetic order at the surface of bulk BiFeO crystals. Combining reciprocal and real-space…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 30 cited

Quantitative study of the response of a single NV defect in diamond to magnetic noise

M. Rollo, A. Finco, R. Tanos +4

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) defect in diamond is an efficient quantum sensor of randomly fluctuating signals via relaxometry measurements. In particular, the longitudinal spin relaxa…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 52 cited

Characterization of room-temperature in-plane magnetization in thin flakes of CrTe with a single spin magnetometer

F. Fabre, A. Finco, A. Purbawati +5

We demonstrate room-temperature ferromagnetism with in-plane magnetic anisotropy in thin flakes of the CrTe van der Waals ferromagnet. Using quantitative magnetic imaging with…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 111 cited

Imaging non-collinear antiferromagnetic textures via single spin relaxometry

Aurore Finco, Angela Haykal, Rana Tanos +13

Antiferromagnetic materials are promising platforms for next-generation spintronics owing to their fast dynamics and high robustness against parasitic magnetic fields. However, nan…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 56 cited

Room temperature skyrmions at zero field in exchange-biased ultrathin films

K. Gaurav Rana, A. Finco, F. Fabre +12

We demonstrate that magnetic skyrmions with a mean diameter around 60 nm can be stabilized at room temperature and zero external magnetic field in an exchange-biased Pt/Co/NiFe/IrM…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019

A journey into the tuneable antiferromagnetic spin textures of BiFeO3

A. Haykal, J. Fischer, W. Akhtar +10

Antiferromagnetic thin films are currently generating considerable excitement for low dissipation magnonics and spintronics. However, while tuneable antiferromagnetic textures form…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 2 cited

Tuning non-collinear magnetic states by hydrogenation

Aurore Finco, Pin-Jui Hsu, Kirsten von Bergmann +1

Two different superstructures form when atomic H is incorporated in the Fe monolayer on Ir(111). Depending on the amount of H provided, either a highly ordered p(2x2) hexagonal sup…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 1 cited

Magnetic domain walls in strain-patterned ultrathin films

Aurore Finco, Marco Perini, André Kubetzka +2

We present a comparison of the characteristics of the magnetic domain walls in an atomic monolayer of Co on Pt(111) and a Ni/Fe atomic bilayer on Ir(111), based on spin-polarized s…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 51 cited

Inducing skyrmions in ultrathin Fe films by hydrogen exposure

Pin-Jui Hsu, Levente Rozsa, Aurore Finco +8

Magnetic skyrmions are localized nanometer-sized spin configurations with particle_like properties, which are envisioned to be used as bits in next_generation information technolog…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 13 cited

Temperature-induced increase of spin spiral periods

Aurore Finco, Levente Rózsa, Pin-Jui Hsu +4

Spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy investigations reveal a significant increase of the magnetic period of spin spirals in three-atomic-layer-thick Fe films on Ir(111), fr…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 8 cited

Tailoring non-collinear magnetism by misfit dislocation lines

Aurore Finco, Pin-Jui Hsu, André Kubetzka +2

The large epitaxial stress induced by the misfit between a triple atomic layer Fe film and an Ir(111) substrate is relieved by the formation of a dense dislocation line network. Sp…

cond-mat.str-el2016★ 13 cited

Dimensional Reduction in Quantum Dipolar Antiferromagnets

P. Babkevich, M. Jeong, Y. Matsumoto +7

We report ac susceptibility, specific heat, and neutron scattering measurements on a dipolar-coupled antiferromagnet LiYbF. For the thermal transition, the order-parameter crit…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 370 cited

Electric field driven switching of individual magnetic skyrmions

Pin-Jui Hsu, André Kubetzka, Aurore Finco +3

Controlling magnetism with electric fields is a key challenge to develop future energy-efficient devices, however, the switching between inversion symmetric states, e.g. magnetizat…

cond-mat.str-el2015★ 35 cited

Neutron spectroscopic study of crystal-field excitations and the effect of the crystal field on dipolar magnetism in LiF ( = Gd, Ho, Er, Tm, and Yb)

P. Babkevich, A. Finco, M. Jeong +12

We present a systematic study of the crystal field interactions in the LiF, = Gd, Ho, Er, Tm and Yb, family of rare-earth magnets. Using detailed inelastic neutron scatt…