Antiferromagnetic opto-spintronics

P Němec, M Fiebig, T Kampfrath, AV Kimel - Nature Physics, 2018 - nature.com
Control and detection of spin order in ferromagnetic materials is the main principle enabling
magnetic information to be stored and read in current technologies. Antiferromagnetic …

Antiferromagnetism: An efficient and controllable spin source

H Bai, YC Zhang, L Han, YJ Zhou, F Pan… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics is an emerging field, with significant advances in
particular in the study of the tunable spin generation, transport, manipulation, and detection …

Creating zero-field skyrmions in exchange-biased multilayers through X-ray illumination

Y Guang, I Bykova, Y Liu, G Yu, E Goering… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Skyrmions, magnetic textures with topological stability, hold promises for high-density and
energy-efficient information storage devices owing to their small size and low driving-current …

Room-temperature skyrmions in an antiferromagnet-based heterostructure

G Yu, A Jenkins, X Ma, SA Razavi, C He, G Yin… - Nano …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Magnetic skyrmions as swirling spin textures with a nontrivial topology have potential
applications as magnetic memory and storage devices. Since the initial discovery of …

Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction across an antiferromagnet-ferromagnet interface

X Ma, G Yu, SA Razavi, SS Sasaki, X Li, K Hao… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
The antiferromagnet-(AFM-) ferromagnet (FM) interfaces are of central importance in
recently developed pure electric or ultrafast control of FM spins, where the underlying …

Resonant Pum** of Crystal Field Electronic Transitions as a Mechanism of Ultrafast Optical Control of the Exchange Interactions in Iron Oxides

RV Mikhaylovskiy, TJ Huisman, VA Gavrichkov… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
The microscopic origin of ultrafast modification of the ratio between the symmetric (J) and
antisymmetric (D) exchange interaction in antiferromagnetic iron oxides is revealed, using …

Electron beam lithography of magnetic skyrmions

Y Guang, Y Peng, Z Yan, Y Liu, J Zhang… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The emergence of magnetic skyrmions, topological spin textures, has aroused tremendous
interest in studying the rich physics related to their topology. While skyrmions promise high …

Perspective on imaging antiferromagnetic domains in thin films with the magneto-optical birefringence effect

C Zhou, J Xu, T Wu, Y Wu - APL Materials, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Antiferromagnets are considered to be a promising host material for the next generation of
magnetic storage due to their high stability and stray-field-free property. However, the …

Femtosecond visualization of oxygen vacancies in metal oxides

X Zhang, F Tang, M Wang, W Zhan, H Hu, Y Li… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Oxygen vacancies often determine the electronic structure of metal oxides, but existing
techniques cannot distinguish the oxygen-vacancy sites in the crystal structure. We report …

Photoinduced In Situ Spontaneous Formation of a Reduced Graphene Oxide-Enwrapped Cu–Cu2O Nanocomposite for Solar Hydrogen Evolution

N Li, W Yan, Y Niu, S Qu, P Zuo, H Bai… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The fast recombination of photogenerated charge carriers and poor stability have impeded
the application of many narrow band gap semiconductors with otherwise excellent …