News
[April 3, 2024] Shihao's first-authored paper "Hybrid magnon-phonon cavity for large-amplitude terahertz spin-wave excitation" was published in Physical Review Applied! We theoretically demonstrate that a freestanding metal/magnetic insulator (MI)/dielectric multilayer can be designed to produce large-amplitude THz spin waves via cavity-enhanced magnon-phonon interactions. The amplitude of the acoustically excited THz spin wave in the freestanding multilayer is predicted to be more than 10 times larger than in a substrate-supported multilayer. We greatly appreciate the insights from the coauthors. The dynamical phase-field simulations were also performed using our in-house GPU-accelerated Open-source Ferroics dynamics modeling package (Go-Ferro).
[March 15, 2024] Congratulations to Taorui for his first-authored paper "Analytical model and dynamical phase-field simulation of terahertz transmission across ferroelectrics" published in Physical Review B! We greatly appreciate the insights from the collaborators! Typically, the study of the interaction between THz light and ferroelectrics centers on what is happening or what would happen afterwards followed by THz excitation. This work is instead focused on THz wave, where ferroelectrics are utilized to modulate the phase, polarization, and amplitude of the incident THz wave in a passive, and source-current-free (thus low power dissipation) fashion, with potential application to high-data-rate wireless communication and beyond. The dynamical phase-field simulations were also performed using our in-house GPU-accelerated Open-source Ferroics dynamics modeling package (Go-Ferro) .
[March 12, 2024] Shihao's collaborative paper "Slow-Wave Hybrid Magnonics" was published in Physical Review Letters! We appreciate the opportunity to collaborate. In this work, we performed dynamical phase-field simulations, via our in-house GPU-accelerated Open-source Ferroics dynamics modeling package (Go-Ferro) to simulate the time-domain dynamics of coherently coupled magnon and spoof surface plasmon polaritons (SSPP) in planar waveguide devices.
[September 8, 2023] Congratulations to Minyi for her first-authored paper "Graph Neural Network for Predicting the Effective Properties of Polycrystalline Materials: A Comprehensive Analysis" published in Computational Materials Science and co-authored paper "Field-free Spin-orbit switching of Perpendicular Magnetization enabled by dislocation-induced in-plane symmetry breaking" published on Nature Communications!
[May 30, 2023] Shihao's collaborative paper "Machine learning-enabled superior energy storage in ferroelectric film with a slush-like polar state" was published in Nano Letters! We appreciate the opportunity to collaborate. In this work, we performed phase-field simulations to model the polarization domains structure and their switching in doped and undoped BZT-BCT ferroelectric solid solution thin film. The results are consistent with P-E loop and TEM measurement.
[April 26, 2023] Two new papers published on the same day! Please check Jiamian's co-authored perspective article together with Kawasaki group "Strain and strain gradient engineering in membranes of quantum materials", and Minyi's collaborative paper "A puzzling insensitivity of magnon spin diffusion to the presence of 180-degree domain walls" published in Nature Communications, where Minyi used micromagnetic modeling to simulate the magnetic domain switching in MgAl0.5Fe1.5O4 thin films that agree with experiments.
[Jan. 26, 2023] Minyi's collaborative paper "Significant Unconventional Anomalous Hall Effect in Heavy metal/Antiferromagnetic Insulator heterostructures" was published in Advanced Science! We appreciate the opportunity to collaborate! In this work, Minyi was able to simulate the chiral spin texture in NiO (with a thin Pt top layer) using MuMax3 by converting an atomistic spin Hamiltonian into a continuum magnetic free energy.
[Jan. 12, 2023] Dr. Jiamian Hu received the NSF CAREER award from the Condensed Matter and Materials Theory program within the Division of Materials Research! We greatly appreciate the support from the NSF and the community!
[Jan. 9, 2023] Shihao's another first-authored paper "Acoustic attenuation in magnetic insulator films: effects of magnon polaron formation" was published in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics! We hope our time-domain simulations can provide new insights into the old problem on the attenuation of an acoustic wave in magnetic media!
[Jan 3, 2023] Mojue and Minyi's collaborative paper "Bicontinuous oxide heteroepitaxy with enhanced photoconductivity" was published in Nature Communications! We appreciate the opportunity to collaborate! It was always fun to use phase-field simulations to investigate fundamental materials science problems like nucleation and growth and spinodal decomposition, and generate digital twins of real microstructures!
[October 18, 2022] Shihao's first-authored paper "Role of polarization-photon coupling in ultrafast terahertz excitation of ferroelectrics" was published as a Letter in Physical Review B! In this work, we developed an analytical theory and a new dynamical phase-field model to quantify the role of polarization-photon coupling in ultrafast THz excitation of ferroelectrics. We show that considering such coupling is necessary to achieve a correct theoretical description and an accurate computation-guided design of ultrafast THz excitation experiments in solids.
[August 11, 2022] Shihao's first-authored paper "Excitation and detection of coherent sub-terahertz magnons in ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic heterostructures" was published in npj Computational Materials! The predictions in this paper were made based on an in-house GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)-accelerated dynamical phase-field model that considers the coupled dynamics of acoustic phonons, magnons, photons, and plasmons.
[May 16, 2022] Dr. Jiamian Hu was selected as the recipient of the 2022 Robert L. Coble Award for Young Scholars from the American Ceramic Society (ACerS)! (News)
[May 12, 2022] Mojue gave her first major conference oral presentation "Computational design of ferroelectric Nanotubes as large-strain, low hysteresis piezoelectric actuator" at the 2022 MRS Spring meeting in Hawaii!
[May 9, 2022] Congratulations to Shihao on his co-authored paper "Synthesis of a new ferroelectric relaxor based on a combination of antiferroelectric and paraelectric system" published on ACS Applied Materials Interfaces! In this paper, we developed a phase-field model for simulating the polarization configuration and evolution in a solid solution thin film comprised of antiferroelectric (PbHfO3) and paraelectric (BaHfO3) materials. We predict that the strain associated with the antiferroelectric PbHfO3 can turn the paraelectric BaHfO3 into a ferroelectric (similar to strain-induced ferroelectricity in SrTiO3), and this well explains the experimental observations.
[May 4, 2022] Congratulations to Aiden Ross on getting his first-authored paper "Geometrical control of domain structure in ferroelectric nanotubes" published on Advanced Electronic Materials! Aiden has also recently won the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship! (see our departmental news here)
[January 22, 2022] Congratulations to Minyi on winning the Turnbull award for best research paper from Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UW-Madison for her paper "Graph neural networks for an accurate and interpretable prediction of the properties of polycrystalline materials"!
[December 15, 2021] We are truly grateful and honored to be selected as one of the two winning teams for the 2021 WARF Innovation Award! Award announcement video is here (link)
[November 29-December 2, 2021]
We are active in MRS Fall 2021 meeting this week, with Shihao and Minyi successfully delivering their first oral presentation at major conference!
[November 12, 2021] Congratulations to Shihao for his first-authored paper "A narrowband spintronic terahertz emitter based on magnetoelastic heterostructures" published on ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces! We have two patents related to this technology that have been issued. Our technology was also selected as one of the six finalists by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) for the 2021 WARF Innovation award (check our video here).
[September 1, 2021] PhD student Mojue Zhang joined the group! Welcome, Mojue!
[July 19, 2021] Congratulations to Shihao for his co-authored paper "Structural Evidence for Ultrafast Polarization Rotation in Ferroelectic/Dielectric Superlattice nanodomains" published on Physical Review X!
[July 9, 2021] Congratulations to Minyi for her first-authored paper "Graph neural networks for an accurate and interpretable prediction of the properties of polycrystalline materials" published on npj Computational Materials! News
[June 17, 2021] Congratulations to Shihao for his co-authored paper "Interfacial-strain-controlled ferroelectricity in self-assembled BiFeO3 nanostructures" published on Advanced Functional Materials!
[May 15, 2021] Congratulations to Shihao for his co-authored paper "Engineering new limits to magnetostriction through metastability in iron-gallium alloys" published on Nature Communications!
[April 19, 2021] Congratulations to Undergraduate researcher Aiden Ross, who is currently working in the lab under the support of 2020 sophomore research fellowship, on winning the equally selective 2021 Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship for working on a new research project!
[February 3, 2021] Dr. Hu received the 2021-22 Vilas associate award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison!
[January 12, 2021] Congratulations to Shihao for his co-first-authored paper "Electric-field control of skyrmions in multiferroic heterostructures via magnetoelectric coupling" published on Nature Communications!
[November 28, 2020] Dr. Hu delivered a tutorial on Phase-field modeling of ferroic nanomaterials at the Virtual MRS Spring/Fall 2020 meeting at Symposium S.EL12: Ferroic Materials and Heterostructures for Electronics and Data Storage.
[November 15, 2020] Special issue on "Voltage control of nanomagnetism" on Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, guest edited by Dr. Hu and Dr. Massimo Ghidini, has been completed. Check our editorial and all the 12 excellent articles (1 topic review and 11 original research papers) of this special issue here.
[October 27, 2020] Dr. Hu delivered an invited seminar talk (virtual) "Machine Learning the materials microstructures" at the Department of Physics, University of Houston.
[October 20, 2020] Dr. Hu delivered an invited talk (virtual) "Phase-field modeling of strain-mediated control of nanomagnetism" at the Online Spintronics Seminar (recording).
[October 2, 2020] Two new collaborative research articles published back-to-back on Science Advances! PhD student Minyi Dai and Shihao Zhuang are involved in these two papers, respectively. We are grateful for the opportunities to work together from our wonderful collaborators. These two papers are (in chronological order of submission date):
Resonant nanodiffraction x-ray imaging reveals role of magneic domains in complex oxide spin caloritronics (Click here; See News coverage by UW-Madison College of Engineering)
Electric-field control of spin dynamics during magnetic phase transitions (Click here).
[September 15, 2020] Our lab is awarded ~1 million CPU core hours and ~12,000 GPU core hours in the state-of-the-art supercomputing facilities at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center through NSF-funded XSEDE program! We are very grateful for the continuous support from XSEDE.
[August 1, 2020] PhD student Mingrui Li joins the group! Welcome, Mingrui!
[June 15, 2020] Dr. Hu received a grant from the National Science Foundation through the Nanoscale Interactions Program! News We will collaborate with Dr. Chang-Beom Eom and Dr. Alexei Gruverman on this exciting project. We are very grateful for the generous support.
[Jun 14, 2020] Dr. Hu received a grant from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund through the Doctoral New Investigator Program! We are very grateful for the generous support.
[Jun 12, 2020] Congratulations to Minyi for her first first-authored paper published on npj Computational Materials! (Click here). We made the prediction using both micromagnetic and atomistic modeling (via our in-house AtomMag). About 1000 groups of benchmarked micromagnetic simulations were performed to train an accurate machine learning model for rapid prediction.
[Mar 13, 2020] New Collaborative Research Article on Physical Review Letters: Domain Dynamics Under Ultrafast Electric-Field Pulses (Click here).
[Mar 3, 2020] The first beta version of AtomMag, our in-house, GPU-accelerated Atomistic Spin Dynamics Simulation Package, has now been released (see GitHub Page here)! Thanks to graduate student Minyi Dai for her great work. More features will be added in future versions.
[Nov 12, 2019] New Research Article on Acta Materialia: Stability and dynamics of skyrmions in ultrathin magnetic nanodisks under strain (Click here). Apart from phase-field simulations, an original Lagrangian-mechanics-based analytical model is formulated to understand the strain-induced skyrmion breathing dynamics.
[Aug 26, 2019] New Perspective Article on APL Materials: Opportunities and Challenges for Magnetoelectric Devices (Click here). Selected as "Featured Article" of the issue; Highlighted with a news story by Scilight (link).
[May 20, 2019] New Collaborative publication on Nature Materials: Shear-strain-mediated magnetoelectric effects revealed by imaging. (Click here).
[April 11, 2019] Congratulations to Undergraduate Student Sam Christianson for receiving the Welton Sophomore Honors Summer Apprenticeship for the project, "Mechanical Switching of Bloch Skyrmions in a FeGe nanodisk" in our lab. The purpose of these Apprenticeships is to provide students with an experience in participating actual, cutting-edge research in an area of their interests. Congratulations to Sam!
[March 5, 2019] New publication: Theory suggests that magnetoelectric heterostructure can potentially be used for magnetic-field-triggered drug delivery. Selected as Editor's pick (Click here).
[December 25, 2018] New collaborative publication: Coexistence of magnetoelectric coupling and spin-orbit torque revealed experimentally in Pt/CoFeB/Ta/PMN-PT heterostructure. (Click here)
[November 21, 2018] New publication: Switching magnetic skyrmions costs only ~10^-16 J (Click here)
[August 20, 2018] New graduate student Minyi Dai and Shihao Zhuang joined the group! Welcome! [Link]
[March 15, 2024] Congratulations to Taorui for his first-authored paper "Analytical model and dynamical phase-field simulation of terahertz transmission across ferroelectrics" published in Physical Review B! We greatly appreciate the insights from the collaborators! Typically, the study of the interaction between THz light and ferroelectrics centers on what is happening or what would happen afterwards followed by THz excitation. This work is instead focused on THz wave, where ferroelectrics are utilized to modulate the phase, polarization, and amplitude of the incident THz wave in a passive, and source-current-free (thus low power dissipation) fashion, with potential application to high-data-rate wireless communication and beyond. The dynamical phase-field simulations were also performed using our in-house GPU-accelerated Open-source Ferroics dynamics modeling package (Go-Ferro) .
[March 12, 2024] Shihao's collaborative paper "Slow-Wave Hybrid Magnonics" was published in Physical Review Letters! We appreciate the opportunity to collaborate. In this work, we performed dynamical phase-field simulations, via our in-house GPU-accelerated Open-source Ferroics dynamics modeling package (Go-Ferro) to simulate the time-domain dynamics of coherently coupled magnon and spoof surface plasmon polaritons (SSPP) in planar waveguide devices.
[September 8, 2023] Congratulations to Minyi for her first-authored paper "Graph Neural Network for Predicting the Effective Properties of Polycrystalline Materials: A Comprehensive Analysis" published in Computational Materials Science and co-authored paper "Field-free Spin-orbit switching of Perpendicular Magnetization enabled by dislocation-induced in-plane symmetry breaking" published on Nature Communications!
[May 30, 2023] Shihao's collaborative paper "Machine learning-enabled superior energy storage in ferroelectric film with a slush-like polar state" was published in Nano Letters! We appreciate the opportunity to collaborate. In this work, we performed phase-field simulations to model the polarization domains structure and their switching in doped and undoped BZT-BCT ferroelectric solid solution thin film. The results are consistent with P-E loop and TEM measurement.
[April 26, 2023] Two new papers published on the same day! Please check Jiamian's co-authored perspective article together with Kawasaki group "Strain and strain gradient engineering in membranes of quantum materials", and Minyi's collaborative paper "A puzzling insensitivity of magnon spin diffusion to the presence of 180-degree domain walls" published in Nature Communications, where Minyi used micromagnetic modeling to simulate the magnetic domain switching in MgAl0.5Fe1.5O4 thin films that agree with experiments.
[Jan. 26, 2023] Minyi's collaborative paper "Significant Unconventional Anomalous Hall Effect in Heavy metal/Antiferromagnetic Insulator heterostructures" was published in Advanced Science! We appreciate the opportunity to collaborate! In this work, Minyi was able to simulate the chiral spin texture in NiO (with a thin Pt top layer) using MuMax3 by converting an atomistic spin Hamiltonian into a continuum magnetic free energy.
[Jan. 12, 2023] Dr. Jiamian Hu received the NSF CAREER award from the Condensed Matter and Materials Theory program within the Division of Materials Research! We greatly appreciate the support from the NSF and the community!
[Jan. 9, 2023] Shihao's another first-authored paper "Acoustic attenuation in magnetic insulator films: effects of magnon polaron formation" was published in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics! We hope our time-domain simulations can provide new insights into the old problem on the attenuation of an acoustic wave in magnetic media!
[Jan 3, 2023] Mojue and Minyi's collaborative paper "Bicontinuous oxide heteroepitaxy with enhanced photoconductivity" was published in Nature Communications! We appreciate the opportunity to collaborate! It was always fun to use phase-field simulations to investigate fundamental materials science problems like nucleation and growth and spinodal decomposition, and generate digital twins of real microstructures!
[October 18, 2022] Shihao's first-authored paper "Role of polarization-photon coupling in ultrafast terahertz excitation of ferroelectrics" was published as a Letter in Physical Review B! In this work, we developed an analytical theory and a new dynamical phase-field model to quantify the role of polarization-photon coupling in ultrafast THz excitation of ferroelectrics. We show that considering such coupling is necessary to achieve a correct theoretical description and an accurate computation-guided design of ultrafast THz excitation experiments in solids.
[August 11, 2022] Shihao's first-authored paper "Excitation and detection of coherent sub-terahertz magnons in ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic heterostructures" was published in npj Computational Materials! The predictions in this paper were made based on an in-house GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)-accelerated dynamical phase-field model that considers the coupled dynamics of acoustic phonons, magnons, photons, and plasmons.
[May 16, 2022] Dr. Jiamian Hu was selected as the recipient of the 2022 Robert L. Coble Award for Young Scholars from the American Ceramic Society (ACerS)! (News)
[May 12, 2022] Mojue gave her first major conference oral presentation "Computational design of ferroelectric Nanotubes as large-strain, low hysteresis piezoelectric actuator" at the 2022 MRS Spring meeting in Hawaii!
[May 9, 2022] Congratulations to Shihao on his co-authored paper "Synthesis of a new ferroelectric relaxor based on a combination of antiferroelectric and paraelectric system" published on ACS Applied Materials Interfaces! In this paper, we developed a phase-field model for simulating the polarization configuration and evolution in a solid solution thin film comprised of antiferroelectric (PbHfO3) and paraelectric (BaHfO3) materials. We predict that the strain associated with the antiferroelectric PbHfO3 can turn the paraelectric BaHfO3 into a ferroelectric (similar to strain-induced ferroelectricity in SrTiO3), and this well explains the experimental observations.
[May 4, 2022] Congratulations to Aiden Ross on getting his first-authored paper "Geometrical control of domain structure in ferroelectric nanotubes" published on Advanced Electronic Materials! Aiden has also recently won the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship! (see our departmental news here)
[January 22, 2022] Congratulations to Minyi on winning the Turnbull award for best research paper from Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UW-Madison for her paper "Graph neural networks for an accurate and interpretable prediction of the properties of polycrystalline materials"!
[December 15, 2021] We are truly grateful and honored to be selected as one of the two winning teams for the 2021 WARF Innovation Award! Award announcement video is here (link)
[November 29-December 2, 2021]
We are active in MRS Fall 2021 meeting this week, with Shihao and Minyi successfully delivering their first oral presentation at major conference!
- Shihao gave an oral presentation titled "A narrowband spintronic tetrahertz emitter based on magnetoelastic heterostructures" at 2021 MRS Fall meeting at Symposium EQ10: Multiferroics and Magnetoelectrics.
- Minyi gave an oral presentation named "Graph Neural Networks for an accurate and interpretable prediction of the properties of polycrystalline materials" at 2021 MRS Fall meeting at Symposium DS03: Combining Machine Learning with Simulations for Materials Modeling.
- Dr. Hu gave a tutorial presentation "Phase-field modeling of ferroic materials and devices - Application to magnetoelectric antenna" at Symposium EQ10: Multiferroics and Magnetoelectrics
[November 12, 2021] Congratulations to Shihao for his first-authored paper "A narrowband spintronic terahertz emitter based on magnetoelastic heterostructures" published on ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces! We have two patents related to this technology that have been issued. Our technology was also selected as one of the six finalists by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) for the 2021 WARF Innovation award (check our video here).
[September 1, 2021] PhD student Mojue Zhang joined the group! Welcome, Mojue!
[July 19, 2021] Congratulations to Shihao for his co-authored paper "Structural Evidence for Ultrafast Polarization Rotation in Ferroelectic/Dielectric Superlattice nanodomains" published on Physical Review X!
[July 9, 2021] Congratulations to Minyi for her first-authored paper "Graph neural networks for an accurate and interpretable prediction of the properties of polycrystalline materials" published on npj Computational Materials! News
[June 17, 2021] Congratulations to Shihao for his co-authored paper "Interfacial-strain-controlled ferroelectricity in self-assembled BiFeO3 nanostructures" published on Advanced Functional Materials!
[May 15, 2021] Congratulations to Shihao for his co-authored paper "Engineering new limits to magnetostriction through metastability in iron-gallium alloys" published on Nature Communications!
[April 19, 2021] Congratulations to Undergraduate researcher Aiden Ross, who is currently working in the lab under the support of 2020 sophomore research fellowship, on winning the equally selective 2021 Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship for working on a new research project!
[February 3, 2021] Dr. Hu received the 2021-22 Vilas associate award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison!
[January 12, 2021] Congratulations to Shihao for his co-first-authored paper "Electric-field control of skyrmions in multiferroic heterostructures via magnetoelectric coupling" published on Nature Communications!
[November 28, 2020] Dr. Hu delivered a tutorial on Phase-field modeling of ferroic nanomaterials at the Virtual MRS Spring/Fall 2020 meeting at Symposium S.EL12: Ferroic Materials and Heterostructures for Electronics and Data Storage.
[November 15, 2020] Special issue on "Voltage control of nanomagnetism" on Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, guest edited by Dr. Hu and Dr. Massimo Ghidini, has been completed. Check our editorial and all the 12 excellent articles (1 topic review and 11 original research papers) of this special issue here.
[October 27, 2020] Dr. Hu delivered an invited seminar talk (virtual) "Machine Learning the materials microstructures" at the Department of Physics, University of Houston.
[October 20, 2020] Dr. Hu delivered an invited talk (virtual) "Phase-field modeling of strain-mediated control of nanomagnetism" at the Online Spintronics Seminar (recording).
[October 2, 2020] Two new collaborative research articles published back-to-back on Science Advances! PhD student Minyi Dai and Shihao Zhuang are involved in these two papers, respectively. We are grateful for the opportunities to work together from our wonderful collaborators. These two papers are (in chronological order of submission date):
Resonant nanodiffraction x-ray imaging reveals role of magneic domains in complex oxide spin caloritronics (Click here; See News coverage by UW-Madison College of Engineering)
Electric-field control of spin dynamics during magnetic phase transitions (Click here).
[September 15, 2020] Our lab is awarded ~1 million CPU core hours and ~12,000 GPU core hours in the state-of-the-art supercomputing facilities at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center through NSF-funded XSEDE program! We are very grateful for the continuous support from XSEDE.
[August 1, 2020] PhD student Mingrui Li joins the group! Welcome, Mingrui!
[June 15, 2020] Dr. Hu received a grant from the National Science Foundation through the Nanoscale Interactions Program! News We will collaborate with Dr. Chang-Beom Eom and Dr. Alexei Gruverman on this exciting project. We are very grateful for the generous support.
[Jun 14, 2020] Dr. Hu received a grant from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund through the Doctoral New Investigator Program! We are very grateful for the generous support.
[Jun 12, 2020] Congratulations to Minyi for her first first-authored paper published on npj Computational Materials! (Click here). We made the prediction using both micromagnetic and atomistic modeling (via our in-house AtomMag). About 1000 groups of benchmarked micromagnetic simulations were performed to train an accurate machine learning model for rapid prediction.
[Mar 13, 2020] New Collaborative Research Article on Physical Review Letters: Domain Dynamics Under Ultrafast Electric-Field Pulses (Click here).
[Mar 3, 2020] The first beta version of AtomMag, our in-house, GPU-accelerated Atomistic Spin Dynamics Simulation Package, has now been released (see GitHub Page here)! Thanks to graduate student Minyi Dai for her great work. More features will be added in future versions.
[Nov 12, 2019] New Research Article on Acta Materialia: Stability and dynamics of skyrmions in ultrathin magnetic nanodisks under strain (Click here). Apart from phase-field simulations, an original Lagrangian-mechanics-based analytical model is formulated to understand the strain-induced skyrmion breathing dynamics.
[Aug 26, 2019] New Perspective Article on APL Materials: Opportunities and Challenges for Magnetoelectric Devices (Click here). Selected as "Featured Article" of the issue; Highlighted with a news story by Scilight (link).
[May 20, 2019] New Collaborative publication on Nature Materials: Shear-strain-mediated magnetoelectric effects revealed by imaging. (Click here).
[April 11, 2019] Congratulations to Undergraduate Student Sam Christianson for receiving the Welton Sophomore Honors Summer Apprenticeship for the project, "Mechanical Switching of Bloch Skyrmions in a FeGe nanodisk" in our lab. The purpose of these Apprenticeships is to provide students with an experience in participating actual, cutting-edge research in an area of their interests. Congratulations to Sam!
[March 5, 2019] New publication: Theory suggests that magnetoelectric heterostructure can potentially be used for magnetic-field-triggered drug delivery. Selected as Editor's pick (Click here).
[December 25, 2018] New collaborative publication: Coexistence of magnetoelectric coupling and spin-orbit torque revealed experimentally in Pt/CoFeB/Ta/PMN-PT heterostructure. (Click here)
[November 21, 2018] New publication: Switching magnetic skyrmions costs only ~10^-16 J (Click here)
[August 20, 2018] New graduate student Minyi Dai and Shihao Zhuang joined the group! Welcome! [Link]