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. Read Paper ↗
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. Read Paper ↗