Publications related to Barkhausen effect

Magnetic structure of the topological semimetal Co3Sn2S2

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Ivica Zivkovic, Jian Rui Soh

Co3Sn2S2 has recently been predicted to be a Weyl semimetal in which magnetic order is key to its behavior as a topological material. Here, we report unpolarized neutron diffraction and spherical neutron polarimetry measurements, supported by magnetization ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2022

Ferroelectric Effects Probed by in situ Transmission Electron Microscopy

Reinis Ignatans

Ferroelectric perovskite oxides are widely used in sensors, actuators and optical modulators and, at the same time, they show promise for implementation in future applications such as energy storage, memory and cooling devices. At the infancy of the discov ...

EPFL2022

Canted antiferromagnetic phases in the candidate layered Weyl material EuMnSb2

Xiaoqiang Wang, Xiao Wang

EuMnSb2 is a candidate topological material which can be tuned towards a Weyl semimetal, but there are differing reports for its antiferromagnetic (AFM) phases. The coupling of bands dominated by pure Sb layers hosting topological fermions to Mn and Eu mag ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2022

Field-dependent roughness of moving domain walls in a Pt/Co/Pt magnetic thin film

Elisabeth Agoritsas

The creep motion of domain walls driven by external fields in magnetic thin films is described by universal features related to the underlying depinning transition. One key parameter in this description is the roughness exponent characterizing the growth o ...

2021

Challenges and Applications to Operando and In Situ TEM Imaging and Spectroscopic Capabilities in a Cryogenic Temperature Range

Vasiliki Tileli, Martial Duchamp, Reinis Ignatans

In this Account, we describe the challenges and promising applications of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) imaging and spectroscopy at cryogenic temperatures. Our work focuses on two areas of application: the delay of electron-beam-induced degradatio ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Magnetization Signature of Topological Surface States in a Non-Symmorphic Superconductor

Oleg Yazyev, Hyungjun Lee

Superconductors with nontrivial band structure topology represent a class of materials with unconventional and potentially useful properties. Recent years have seen much success in creating artificial hybrid structures exhibiting the main characteristics o ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2021

Magnons, worms and nanogratings in artificial magnetic quasicrystals

Sho Watanabe

Magnons (spin waves, SWs) are elementary spin excitations in magnetically ordered materials. They are the promising quanta for the transmission and processing of information. Magnons can be coupled to the electromagnetic waves utilized for the wireless com ...

EPFL2021

Individual Barkhausen Pulses of Ferroelastic Nanodomains

Dragan Damjanovic, Vasiliki Tileli, Reinis Ignatans

Ferroelectric materials, upon electric field biasing, display polarization discontinuities known as Barkhausen jumps, a subclass of a more general phenomenon known as crackling noise. Herein, we follow at the nanoscale the motion of 90 degree needle domain ...

2021

Assessing Cu2L2X4 dimeric moieties as ferromagnetic building blocks in double halide-bridged polymers (X = Cl-, Br- and L = benzamide). An experimental and computational study

Sergio Vela Llausi

Two isostructural double halide-bridged polymers, consisting of stacked Cu2L2X4 dimers, with L = benzamide (BA) and X = Cl- in CuClBA and X = Br- in CuBrBA, were synthesised. The experimental magnetic data of both compounds were recorded and it was found t ...

2020

Low-temperature monoclinic layer stacking in atomically thin CrI3 crystals

Marco Gibertini, Zhe Wang

Chromium triiodide, CrI3, is emerging as a promising magnetic two-dimensional semiconductor where spins are ferromagnetically aligned within a single layer. Potential applications in spintronics arise from an antiferromagnetic ordering between adjacent lay ...

2020

Tuning ferromagnetism at room temperature by visible light

László Forró, Endre Horvath, Bálint Náfrádi, Andrea Pisoni, Massimo Spina, Péter Szirmai, Xavier François Mettan

Most digital information today is encoded in the magnetization of ferromagnetic domains. The demand for ever-increasing storage space fuels continuous research for energy-efficient manipulation of magnetism at smaller and smaller length scales. Writing a b ...

National Academy of Sciences2020

Optoelectronic and magnetic properties induced by atomic defects in two-dimensional semiconductors

Alessio Scavuzzo

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have attracted increasing attention over the last decade owing to their remarkable mechanical, electrical and optical properties. Following the groundbreaking discovery of graphene, a plethora of other atomically-thin materia ...

EPFL2020

Surface-induced reversal of a phase transformation for the synthesis of epsilon-Fe2O3 nanoparticles with high coercivity

A metastable 8-polymorph of iron(III) oxide (epsilon-Fe2O3) is a very attractive material from the technological, engineering, and scientific points of view. In comparison with other iron oxides, it is characterized by unusual magnetic properties and a gia ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Controlling Ferromagnetic Ground States and Solitons in Thin Films and Nanowires Built from Iron Phthalocyanine Chains

Gabriel Aeppli

Iron phthalocyanine (FePc) is a molecular semiconductor whose building blocks are 1D ferromagnetic chains. It is shown that its optical and magnetic properties are controlled by the growth strategy, obtaining extremely high coercivities of over 1 T and mod ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2019

Magnetic 2D materials and heterostructures

Marco Gibertini

The family of two-dimensional (2D) materials grows day by day, hugely expanding the scope of possible phenomena to be explored in two dimensions, as well as the possible van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures that one can create. Such 2D materials currently ...

Nature Publishing Group2019

Revising the common understanding of metamagnetism in the molecule-based bisdithiazolyl BDTMe compound

Sergio Vela Llausi

The BDTMe molecule-based material is the first example of a thiazyl radical to exhibit metamagnetic behavior. Contrary to the common idea that metamagnetism occurs in low-dimensional systems, it is found that BDTMe magnetic topology consists of a complex 3 ...

2019

PbZrTiO3 ferroelectric oxide as an electron extraction material for stable halide perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Michael Saliba, Silver Hamill Turren Cruz, Zaiwei Wang, Hui-Seon Kim, Monica Marcela Lira Cantu, Haibing Xie, Anna Morales Melgares

State-of-the-art halide perovskite solar cells employ semiconductor oxides as electron transportmaterials. Defects in these oxides, such as oxygen vacancies (Ovac), act as recombination centres and, in air and UV light, reduce the stability of the solar ce ...

2019

Determining the phase diagram of atomically thin layered antiferromagnet CrCl3

Marco Gibertini, Dumitru Dumcenco, Zhe Wang

Changes in the spin configuration of atomically thin, magnetic van der Waals multilayers can cause drastic modifications in their opto-electronic properties. Conversely, the opto-electronic response of these systems provides information about the magnetic ...

Nature Publishing Group2019

Study and Characterization of Magnetic Materials for Beam Intensity Monitors at CERN

Silvia Aguilera Murciano

The number of particles in the beams used at CERN is measured by a family of devices called the Beam Current Transformers (BCTs). One of such devices is the DC Current Transformer (DCCT) measuring the total number of particles in an accelerator. The DCCT i ...

EPFL2018

Study and characterization of soft magnetic materials for beam intensity monitors at CERN

Heinrich Hofmann, Silvia Aguilera Murciano

At CERN, the circulating beam current measurement is provided by two types of transformers, the DC Current Transformer (DCCT) and the Fast Beam Current Transformer (FBCT). Each transformer is built based on toroidal cores made from a magnetic material. Dep ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2017