Room-Temperature Skyrmionic Synapse in 2D Ferromagnet Fe3GaTe2 Operating via Collective Spin Texture Transformation
May 2026 Jixiang Huang†; Tongji Zhu†; PeiYu Cai†; Xiaoming Ma†; Zhen Wang†; Ruifu Zhang; Yi Hao; Jingdi Lu; Liubing He; Jun Xu; Yuejie Zhang; Wanjun Jiang; Jing Tao; Shiming Lei; Pavel Parchinskiy; Lingfei Wang; Wei Niu; Elton J. G. Santos; Xiaoqian Zhang; Peng Li Advanced Materials e20288 (2026)

Co-first author. GPU-accelerated micromagnetic simulations validated the deterministic, collective skyrmion-to-stripe transformation in Fe3GaTe2 for neuromorphic synaptic devices, achieving 0.66 pJ per operation and 96.1% MNIST accuracy.

Thickness-Dependent Skyrmion Evolution in Fe3GeTe2 During Magnetization Reversal
November 2025 Jennifer Garland; John Fullerton; PeiYu Cai; Rabindra Basnet; Santosh Karki Chhetri; Jin Hu; Elton J. G. Santos; Yue Li; Charudatta Phatak; Amanda Petford-Long Advanced Functional Materials e18239 (2025)

Energy density analysis across multiple thicknesses quantified confinement effects on topological stability and established a theoretical thickness threshold for stable skyrmion formation.

Local Inversion Symmetry Breaking and Thermodynamic Evidence for Ferrimagnetism in Fe3GaTe2
July 2025 Sang-Eon Lee; Yue Li; Yeonkyu Lee; W. Kice Brown; PeiYu Cai; Jinyoung Yun; Chanyoung Lee; Alex Moon; Lingrui Mei; Jaeyong Kim; Yan Xin; Julie A. Borchers; Thomas W. Heitmann; Matthias Frontzek; William D. Ratcliff; Gregory T. McCandless; Julia Y. Chan; Elton J. G. Santos; Jeehoon Kim; Charudatta M. Phatak; Vadym Kulichenko; Luis Balicas ACS Nano 19, 28702-28718 (2025)

Theoretical confirmation of how local symmetry breaking stabilizes Néel and Bloch-hybrid skyrmions in centrosymmetric Fe3GaTe2, bridging structural disorder analysis with chiral texture observations.