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    Electrical detection of mobile skyrmions with 100% tunneling magnetoresistance in a racetrack-like device

    Magnetic skyrmions are topological spin textures that are regarded as promising information carriers for next-generation spintronic memory and computing devices. For practical applications, their deterministic...

    Mengqi Zhao, Aitian Chen, Pei-Yuan Huang, Chen Liu, Laichuan Shen in npj Quantum Materials (2024)

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    Reconfigurable spin current transmission and magnon–magnon coupling in hybrid ferrimagnetic insulators

    Coherent spin waves possess immense potential in wave-based information computation, storage, and transmission with high fidelity and ultra-low energy consumption. However, despite their seminal importance for...

    Yan Li, Zhitao Zhang, Chen Liu, Dongxing Zheng, Bin Fang in Nature Communications (2024)

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    High-performance van der Waals antiferroelectric CuCrP2S6-based memristors

    Layered thio- and seleno-phosphate ferroelectrics, such as CuInP2S6, are promising building blocks for next-generation nonvolatile memory devices. However, because of the low Curie point, the CuInP2S6-based memor...

    Yinchang Ma, Yuan Yan, Linqu Luo, Sebastian Pazos, Chenhui Zhang in Nature Communications (2023)

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    Magnetic memory driven by topological insulators

    Giant spin-orbit torque (SOT) from topological insulators (TIs) provides an energy efficient writing method for magnetic memory, which, however, is still premature for practical applications due to the challen...

    Hao Wu, Aitian Chen, Peng Zhang, Haoran He, John Nance in Nature Communications (2021)

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    Giant nonvolatile manipulation of magnetoresistance in magnetic tunnel junctions by electric fields via magnetoelectric coupling

    Electrically switchable magnetization is considered a milestone in the development of ultralow power spintronic devices, and it has been a long sought-after goal for electric-field control of magnetoresistance...

    Aitian Chen, Yan Wen, Bin Fang, Yuelei Zhao, Qiang Zhang in Nature Communications (2019)

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    Ferroelectricity and Self-Polarization in Ultrathin Relaxor Ferroelectric Films

    We report ferroelectricity and self-polarization in the (001) oriented ultrathin relaxor ferroelectric PMN-PT films grown on Nb-SrTiO3, SrRuO3 and La0.7Sr0.3MnO3, respectively. Resistance-voltage measurements and...

    Peixian Miao, Yonggang Zhao, Nengneng Luo, Diyang Zhao, Aitian Chen in Scientific Reports (2016)

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    Bipolar loop-like non-volatile strain in the (001)-oriented Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3 single crystals

    Strain has been widely used to manipulate the properties of various kinds of materials, such as ferroelectrics, semiconductors, superconductors, magnetic materials and “strain engineering” has become a very ac...

    Lifeng Yang, Yonggang Zhao, Sen Zhang, Peisen Li, Ya Gao in Scientific Reports (2014)