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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Near-room-temperature antiferromagnetism in Janus FeF ( = O, S) monolayers

Xixiang Zhang, Busheng Wang, Yanfeng Ge +2

Inspired by the recently synthesized hexagonal layered phase of FeF, we studied the magnetic properties of the 1T-FeF monolayer and its Janus FeF ( = O, S) derivative…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

A ferroelectric junction transistor memory made from switchable van der Waals p-n heterojunctions

Baoyu Wang, Lingrui Zou, Tao Wang +18

Van der Waals (vdW) p-n heterojunctions are important building blocks for advanced electronics and optoelectronics, in which high-quality heterojunctions essentially determine devi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

First principles study on the oxidation resistance of two-dimensional intrinsic and defective GeO2

Xixiang Zhang, Xinmei Yu, Liang Ma +3

Although two-dimensional (2D) oxide semiconductors exhibit remarkable oxidation resistance compared to conventional 2D materials, the microscopic physical processes that govern thi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Strain Induced Robust Skyrmion lattice at Room Temperature in van der Waals Ferromagnet

Xinyi Zhou, Iftikhar Ahmed Malik, Ruihuan Duan +14

Manipulating topological magnetic orders of two-dimensional (2D) magnets by strain, once achieved, offers enormous potential for future low-power flexible spintronic applications.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Manipulating magnetization by orbital current from a light metal Ti

Dongxing Zheng, Jingkai Xu, Fatimah Alsayafi +16

The orbital Hall effect, which does not rely on the spin-orbit coupling, has recently emerged as a promising mechanism for electrically manipulating magnetization in thin-film ferr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Orbital Current-Driven Magnetization Switching in a Magnetic Tunnel Junction

Jingkai Xu, Dongxing Zheng, Meng Tang +9

Spin-orbitronics, based on both spin and orbital angular momentum, presents a promising pathway for energy-efficient memory and logic devices. Recent studies have demonstrated the…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Ultralow-pressure mechanical-motion switching of ferroelectric polarization

Baoyu Wang, Xin He, Jianjun Luo +20

Ferroelectric polarization switching, achieved by mechanical forces, enables the storage of stress information in ferroelectrics, and holds promise for human-interfacing applicatio…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Spin frustration and unconventional spin twisting state in van der Waals ferromagnet/antiferromagnet heterostructures

Tianye Wang, Qian Li, Mengmeng Yang +14

Atomically flat surfaces of van der Waals (vdW) materials pave an avenue for addressing a long-standing fundamental issue of how a perfectly compensated antiferromagnet (AFM) surfa…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Observation of hydrostatic-pressure-modulated giant caloric effect and electronic topological transition

Jinying Yang, Xingchen Liu, Yibo Wang +12

Phase transition is a fundamental phenomenon in condensed matter physics, in which states of matter transform to each other with various critical behaviors under different conditio…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Fast Lithium Ion Diffusion in Brownmillerite

Xin Chen, Xixiang Zhang, Jie-Xiang Yu +1

Ionic conductors have great potential for interesting tunable physical properties via ionic liquid gating and novel energy storage applications such as all-solid-state lithium batt…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Strong magnon-magnon coupling in an ultralow damping all-magnetic-insulator heterostructure

Jiacheng Liu, Yuzan Xiong, Jingming Liang +12

Magnetic insulators such as yttrium iron garnets (YIGs) are of paramount importance for spin-wave or magnonic devices as their ultralow damping enables ultralow power dissipation t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 4 cited

Ionically-Driven Synthesis and Exchange Bias in MnN/MnN Heterostructures

Zhijie Chen, Christopher J. Jensen, Chen Liu +2

Ferrimagnets have received renewed attention as a promising platform for spintronic applications. Of particular interest is the Mn4N from the -phase of the manganese nitride as…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 16 cited

Ion irradiation and implantation modifications of magneto-ionically induced exchange bias in Gd/NiCoO

Christopher J. Jensen, Alberto Quintana, Mamour Sall +5

Magneto-ionic control of magnetic properties through ionic migration has shown promise in enabling new functionalities in energy-efficient spintronic devices. In this work, we demo…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 29 cited

Electrically Enhanced Exchange Bias via Solid State Magneto-Ionics

Peyton D. Murray, Christopher J. Jensen, Alberto Quintana +5

Electrically induced ionic motion offers a new way to realize voltage-controlled magnetism, opening the door to a new generation of logic, sensor, and data storage technologies. He…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 3 cited

Tailoring interfacial effect in multilayers with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction by helium ion irradiation

A. Sud, S. Tacchi, D. Sagkovits +13

We show a method to control magnetic interfacial effects in multilayers with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) using helium (He) ion irradiation. We report results from…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 305 cited

Electric-field-driven Non-volatile Multi-state Switching of Individual Skyrmions in a Multiferroic Heterostructure

Yadong Wang, Lei Wang, Jing Xia +15

Electrical manipulation of skyrmions attracts considerable attention for its rich physics and promising applications. To date, such a manipulation is realized mainly via spin-polar…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 12 cited

Thermally induced generation and annihilation of magnetic chiral skyrmion bubbles and achiral bubbles in Mn-Ni-Ga Magnets

Bei Ding, Junwei Zhang, Hang Li +5

Magnetic chiral skyrmion bubbles and achiral bubbles are two independent magnetic domain structures, in which the former with equivalent winding number to skyrmions offers great pr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019

Creation of Single Chain of Nanoscale Skyrmion Bubbles with Record-high Temperature Stability in a Geometrically Confined Nanostripe

Zhipeng Hou, Qiang Zhang, Guizhou Xu +11

Nanoscale topologically non-trivial spin textures, such as magnetic skyrmions, have been identified as promising candidates for the transport and storage of information for spintro…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 341 cited

Néel-type skyrmion in WTe2/Fe3GeTe2 van der Waals heterostructure

Yingying Wu, Senfu Zhang, Gen Yin +15

The promise of high-density and low-energy-consumption devices motivates the search for layered structures that stabilize chiral spin textures such as topologically protected skyrm…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 21 cited

Thermal Creation of Skyrmions in Ferromagnetic Films with Perpendicular Anisotropy and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction

Dmitry A. Garanin, Eugene M. Chudnovsky, Senfu Zhang +1

We study theoretically, via Monte Carlo simulations on lattices containing up to 1000 x 1000 spins, thermal creation of skyrmion lattices in a 2D ferromagnetic film with perpendicu…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 3 cited

Topological Hall effect in bulk ferromagnet CrTe embedded with black-phosphorus-like bismuth nanosheets

Liang Zhou, Junshu Chen, Xiaobin Chen +14

We implement the molecular beam epitaxy method to embed the black-phosphorus-like bismuth nanosheets into the bulk ferromagnet CrTe. As a typical surfactant, bismuth lowers…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 32 cited

Energy-resolved Photoconductivity Mapping in a Monolayer-bilayer WSe2 Lateral Heterostructure

Zhaodong Chu, Ali Han, Chao Lei +10

Vertical and lateral heterostructures of van der Waals materials provide tremendous flexibility for band structure engineering. Since electronic bands are sensitively affected by d…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017

Impacts of Doping on Epitaxial Germanium Thin Film Quality and Si-Ge Interdiffusion

Guangnan Zhou, Kwang Hong Lee, Dalaver H. Anjum +5

Ge-on-Si structures with three different dopants (P, As and B) and those without intentional doping were grown and annealed. Several different materials characterization methods ha…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017

Observation of Various and Spontaneous Magnetic Skyrmionic Bubbles at Room-Temperature in a Frustrated Kagome Magnet with Uniaxial Magnetic Anisotropy

Zhipeng Hou, Weijun Ren, Bei Ding +12

Various and spontaneous magnetic skyrmionic bubbles are experimentally observed for the first time, at room temperature in a frustrated kagome magnet Fe3Sn2 with unixial magnetic a…