Van der Waals heterostructures for spintronics and opto-spintronics

JF Sierra, J Fabian, RK Kawakami, S Roche… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The large variety of 2D materials and their co-integration in van der Waals heterostructures
enable innovative device engineering. In addition, their atomically thin nature promotes the …

Colloquium: Nonthermal pathways to ultrafast control in quantum materials

A De La Torre, DM Kennes, M Claassen, S Gerber… - Reviews of Modern …, 2021 - APS
Recent progress in utilizing ultrafast light-matter interaction to control the macroscopic
properties of quantum materials is reviewed. Particular emphasis is placed on photoinduced …

Magnetism, symmetry and spin transport in van der Waals layered systems

H Kurebayashi, JH Garcia, S Khan, J Sinova… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
The discovery of an ever-increasing family of atomic layered magnetic materials, together
with the already established vast catalogue of strong spin–orbit coupling and topological …

Magnetic topological insulator heterostructures: A review

J Liu, T Hesjedal - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Topological insulators (TIs) provide intriguing prospects for the future of spintronics due to
their large spin–orbit coupling and dissipationless, counter‐propagating conduction …

Microwave impedance microscopy and its application to quantum materials

ME Barber, EY Ma, ZX Shen - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Materials in which quantum mechanical effects lead to novel properties on the macroscopic
scale are of interest both fundamentally and for applications. For such quantum materials …

Roadmap for focused ion beam technologies

K Höflich, G Hobler, FI Allen, T Wirtz, G Rius… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The focused ion beam (FIB) is a powerful tool for fabrication, modification, and
characterization of materials down to the nanoscale. Starting with the gallium FIB, which was …

Layered hybrid superlattices as designable quantum solids

Z Wan, Q Qian, Y Huang, X Duan - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Crystalline solids typically show robust long-range structural ordering, vital for their
remarkable electronic properties and use in functional electronics, albeit with limited …

Nanostructured ZnFe2O4: An Exotic Energy Material

M Bohra, V Alman, R Arras - Nanomaterials, 2021 - mdpi.com
More people, more cities; the energy demand increases in consequence and much of that
will rely on next-generation smart materials. Zn-ferrites (ZnFe2O4) are nonconventional …

Machine learning for materials discovery: Two-dimensional topological insulators

GR Schleder, B Focassio, A Fazzio - Applied Physics Reviews, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
One of the main goals and challenges of materials discovery is to find the best candidates
for each interest property or application. Machine learning rises in this context to efficiently …

Connecting higher-order topology with the orbital hall effect in monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides

M Costa, B Focassio, LM Canonico, TP Cysne… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) in the 2 H structural phase have
been recently classified as higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs), protected by C 3 …