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Skyrmions and antiskyrmions are nanoscale swirling textures of magnetic moments formed by chiral interactions between atomic spins in magnetic non-centrosymmetric materials and multilayer films with broken inversion symmetry. These…
Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected spin textures that are promising candidates for low-power spintronic memory and logic devices. Realizing skyrmion-based devices requires an understanding of how structural disorder affects…
B20 phase magnetic materials, such as FeGe, have been of significant interests in recent years because they enable magnetic skyrmions, which can potentially lead to low energy cost spintronic applications. One major effort in this emerging…
Skyrmions are localized magnetic spin textures whose stability has been shown theoretically to depend on material parameters including bulk Dresselhaus spin orbit coupling (SOC), interfacial Rashba SOC, and magnetic anisotropy. Here, we…
Magnetic skyrmions are localized nanometer-sized spin configurations with particle_like properties, which are envisioned to be used as bits in next_generation information technology. An essential step towards future skyrmion-based…
The interesting physics and potential memory technologies resulting from topologically protected spin textures such as skyrmions, has prompted efforts to discover new material systems that can host these kind of magnetic structures. Here we…
The study of nanoscale chiral magnetic order in polycrystalline materials with a strong Dzyaloshinkii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is interesting for the observation of magnetic phenomena at grain boundaries and interfaces. One such material is…
The discovery of ferromagnetism in two-dimensional (2D) monolayers has stimulated growing research interest in both spintronics and material science. However, these 2D ferromagnetic layers are mainly prepared through an incompatible…
Creating materials that do not exist in nature can lead to breakthroughs in science and technology. Magnetic skyrmions are topological excitations that have attracted great attention recently for their potential applications in low power,…
Thin films of ferrimagnetic Mn$_4$N are candidate materials to host magnetic skyrmions that have demonstrated thermal stability up to 450$^\circ$C. However, there are no experimental reports observing skyrmions in this system. Here, we…
The structural parameters of $\epsilon$-FeGe have been determined at ambient conditions using single crystal refinement. Powder diffraction have been carried out to determine structural properties and compressibility for pressures up to 30…
Skyrmion-containing devices have been proposed as a promising solution for low energy data storage. These devices include racetrack or logic structures and require skyrmions to be confined in regions with dimensions comparable to the size…
Changes of the magnetic and crystal structure on the microscopic scale in 40 nm FeRh thin films have been applied to investigate the phenomena of a disorder induced ferromagnetism at room temperature initiated through light ion-irradiation…
Magnetic skyrmions present interesting physics due to their topological nature and hold significant promise for future information technologies. A key barrier to realizing skyrmion devices has been stabilizing these spin structures under…
Investigations into the magnetic properties of sputtered Mn$_{x}$CoGe films in the range $0.8 \leq x \leq 2.5$ uncovered ferrimagnetic order, unlike the ferromagnetic order reported in bulk samples. These films formed hexagonal…
A material in possession of localized 4f-electron magnetism and delocalized 3d-electron or band magnetism can often present A material in possession of localized 4f-electron magnetism and delocalized 3d-electron or band magnetism can often…
Magnetic skyrmions have attracted great research interest in recent years due to their exotic physical properties, scientific merit and potential applications in modern technology. Here, we apply a quantum computational method to…
Skyrmions, topologically stable spin textures, are of great interest for new generations of spintronic devices. In general, the stabilization of skyrmions has been achieved in systems with broken inversion symmetry, where the asymmetric…
Magnetic skyrmions are topological spin structures having immense potential for energy efficient spintronic devices. However, observations of skyrmions at room temperature are limited to patterned nanostructures. Here, we report the…
MnGe has been grown as a thin film on Si(111) substrates by molecular beam epitaxy. A 10 \AA\ layer of MnSi was used as seedlayer in order to establish the B20 crystal structure. Films of a thickness between 45 and 135 \AA\ have been…