Imaging of a van der Waals spin-orbit torque system using spin ensembles in hBN
June 2026 Xi Zhang; Jingcheng Zhou; Chaowei Hu; PeiYu Cai; Kuangyin Deng; Chuangtang Wang; Nishkarsh Agarwal; Hanshang Jin; Faris A. Al-Matouq; Stelo Xu; Roshan S. Trivedi; Senlei Li; Sumedh Rathi; Hanyi Lu; Zhigang Jiang; Valentin Taufour; Robert Hovden; Liuyan Zhao; Ran Cheng; Xiaodong Xu; Elton J. G. Santos; Jiun-Haw Chu; Chunhui Rita Du; Hailong Wang Nature Communications 17, 7350 (2026)

Disentangled field-like and damping-like torques in deterministic SOT switching, clarifying the SOT/STT interplay in Fe3GaTe2/hBN.

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 collective skyrmion-to-stripe switching in Fe3GaTe2 for neuromorphic synapses (0.66 pJ, 96.1% MNIST).