#skyrmions

Laser-Induced Topological Toggle Switching at Room Temperature in the van der Waals Ferromagnet Fe3GaTe2

June 2026 Charlie W. F. Freeman; Woohyun Cho; Paul S. Keatley; PeiYu Cai; Elton J. G. Santos; Robert J. Hicken; H. Yang; Hidekazu Kurebayashi; Murat Cubukcu; Maciej Dabrowski npj Spintronics 4, 24 (2026)

#Spintronics #Skyrmions #Thermodynamics #Fe3GaTe2 #Laser

Micromagnetic simulations validated all-optical toggle switching, showing laser-induced heating and quenching enables skyrmion bubbles at record-low 5 mT fields.

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Micromagnetic Investigation of Thickness-Dependent Skyrmion Evolution and Pinning in Fe3GeTe2

April 2026 Intermag 2026 Conference (Poster Presentation)

#Micromagnetics #Skyrmions #Fe3GeTe2 #MUMAX3 #Domain Walls

Poster presentation. Simulations show thickness-driven skyrmion stability and step-edge domain pinning in Fe3GeTe2, identifying demagnetization energy gradients as the dominant pinning mechanism.

Thickness-Dependent Skyrmion Evolution in Fe3GeTe2 during Magnetization Reversal

November 2025 IEEE ATC_ATG 2025 Conference

#Fe3GeTe2 #Skyrmions #Micromagnetics

Micromagnetic simulations and LTEM observations of thickness-dependent domain evolution in Fe3GeTe2.

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 M. Phatak; Amanda Petford-Long Advanced Functional Materials e18239 (2025)

#Skyrmions #Fe3GeTe2 #Micromagnetics #Thickness #MUMAX3

Energy density analysis quantified confinement effects on skyrmion stability and established a theoretical thickness threshold.

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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)

#Fe3GaTe2 #Ferrimagnetism #Skyrmions #Lorentz TEM #Micromagnetics

Theoretical confirmation of how local symmetry breaking stabilizes Néel and Bloch-hybrid skyrmions in centrosymmetric Fe3GaTe2.

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Epitaxial Growth of Large-Scale 2D CrTe2 Films on Amorphous Silicon Wafers With Low Thermal Budget

March 2024 Xiaoqian Zhang; Yue Li; Qiangsheng Lu; Xueqiang Xiang; Xiaozhen Sun; Chunli Tang; Muntasir Mahdi; Clayton Conner; Jacob Cook; Yuzan Xiong; Jerad Inman; Wencan Jin; Chang Liu; PeiYu Cai; Elton J. G. Santos; Charudatta M. Phatak; Wei Zhang; Nan Gao; Wei Niu; Guang Bian; Peng Li; Dapeng Yu; Shibing Long Advanced Materials 2311591 (2024) — Journal Cover

#2D vdW Magnets #Skyrmions #DMI #CrTe2 #Spintronics

Micromagnetic simulations showed interfacial DMI stabilizes Néel-type skyrmions in CrTe2/Bi2Te3 and quantified the required DMI strength.

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