Publications
Summary: Total 260 peer-reviewed papers including 3 PRL (IF=9.227), 6 Nature Communications (IF=11.88), 2 Nature Electronics, 1 Nature Physics (IF=21.797), 2 Advanced Materials (IF=25.809), 1 NPG Asia Materials (IF= 9.157), 1 Proceedings of the IEEE (IF=9.107), 2 ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (IF=8.456), 2 Nanoscale (IF=6.97), 1 npj Quantum Materials (IF=9.206) and 4 Nano Letters (IF= 12.279), ~30 invited talks at APS, MRS, Intermag, MMM etc, 8 invited book chapter, 20 patents, with total Citation of ~10100 and H-index=50
Research Highlights [Representative publications in recent three years] (* represents the corresponding author)
1) “Current-induced dynamics and chaos of antiferromagnetic bimerons”
L. Shen, J. Xia, X. Zhang, M. Ezawa, O. A. Tretiakov, X. Liu, G. Zhao, and Yan Zhou*
Physical Review Letters, 124, 037202 (2020).
Highlighted by Phys.org etc.
https://phys.org/news/2020-02-antiferromagnetic-bimeron-chaotic-behaviors.html
2) “Magnetic skyrmions: intriguing physics and new spintronic device concepts”
Yan Zhou*
National Science Review, vol. 6, No. 2, pp 210-212 (2019). doi:10.1093/nsr/nwy109
3) “A reversible conversion between a skyrmion and a domain-wall pair in junction geometry”
Yan Zhou* and M. Ezawa
Nature Communications, 5, 4652, (2014).
Our proposed theory in this paper has been experimentally proved in Science, Vol. 349, pp. 283-286, 17 July 2015
Citation ~200 times within 2 years
Selected as “Highly cited paper” by Web of Science
Web of Science “Highly cited paper”
4) “Dynamically stabilized magnetic skyrmions”,
Yan Zhou, E. Iacocca, A. Awad, R. K. Dumas, F. C. Zhang, H. B. Braun, and J. Åkerman
Nature Communications, 6, 8193, (2015).
Highlighted by Phys.org, Science daily, IEEE Spectrum, Storage Newsletter, alphagalileo etc.
http://phys.org/news/2015-09-scientists-storage-based-skyrmions.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151013112355.htm?utm_source=feedburner
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=157302&CultureCode=en
http://www.innovationtoronto.com/2015/10/new-method-for-dynamic-stable-skyrmions-is-developed/
http://www.storagenewsletter.com/rubriques/miscellaneous/rd-method-for-dynamic-stable-skyrmions
Web of Science “Highly cited paper”
5) “Magnetic bilayer skyrmion without topological hall effect”,
X. C. Zhang, Yan Zhou*, M. Ezawa
Nature Communications, 7, 10293 (2016).
Featured Article in natureasia.com: http://www.natureasia.com/ja-jp/ncomms/abstracts/73000
Web of Science “Highly cited paper”
6) “Skyrmion dynamics in a frustrated ferromagnetic film and current-induced helicity locking-unlocking
transition”
Xichao Zhang, Jing Xia, Yan Zhou*, Xiaoxi Liu, Han Zhang, and Motohiko Ezawa
Nature Communications, 8, 1717, (2017)
7) “Fibre Optics for Spin Waves”,
X. J. Xing and Yan Zhou*
NPG Asia Materials, 8, e246 (2016). doi:10.1038/am.2016.25
8) “Skyrmion-Based Dynamic Magnonic Crystal”,
F. Ma, Yan Zhou*, H. B. Braun, and W. S. Lew
Nano Letters, 15, 4029, (2015).
Web of Science “Highly cited paper”
9) “Current-Induced Helicity Reversal of a Single Skyrmionic Bubble Chain in a Nanostructured Frustrated Magnet”
Zhipeng Hou, Qiang Zhang, Xichao Zhang, Guizhou Xu, Jing Xia, Bei Ding, Hang Li, Senfu Zhang, Nitin M Batra, Pedro MF Costa, Enke Liu, Guangheng Wu, Motohiko Ezawa, Xiaoxi Liu, Yan Zhou*, Xixiang Zhang*, and Wenhong Wang* (*co-correspondence authors)
Advanced Materials, 1904815(1-8) (2019).
10) “Direct Observation of the Skyrmion Hall Effect”
W. Jiang+, X. C. Zhang+, Guoqiang Yu, Wei Zhang, M. Benjamin Jungfleisch, John E. Pearson, Olle Heinonen, Kang L. Wang, Yan Zhou, Axel Hoffmann, Suzanne G. E. te Velthuis
Nature Physics, 13, 162–169 (2017)
*My student X. C. Zhang is co-first author. *Leading contribution in the theory part.
Web of Science “Highly cited paper”
11) “Skyrmion-Electronics: An Overview and Outlook”
Wang Kang, Yangqi Huang, Xichao Zhang, Yan Zhou*, and Weisheng Zhao
Proceedings of the IEEE, 104, 2040 (2016).
Web of Science “Highly cited paper”
12) “Negative capacitance transistors with monolayer black phosphorus”
Fei Liu, Yan Zhou*, Yijiao Wang, Xiaoyan Liu, Jian Wang, Hong Guo
npj Quantum Materials 1, 16004 (2016). doi:10.1038/npjquantmats.2016.4
Highlighted by Nature 自然科研
http://www.nature.com/articles/npjquantmats20164
http://chuansong.me/n/697220352894
13) “Creation and directional motion of chiral spin textures induced by electric fields”
Chuang Ma, Xichao Zhang, Yusei Yamada, Jing Xia, Motohiko Ezawa, Wanjun Jiang, Yan Zhou*, Akimitsu Morisako and Xiaoxi Liu* (*co-correspondence authors)
Nano Letters, 19 (1), 353-361, (2019).
14) “Numerical Demonstration of Multi-functional MRAM Cell Based on Inertial Magnetic Switching”
Xiaoguang Li and Yan Zhou*, International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM), (2018).
15) “Magnetic skyrmion logic gates: conversion, duplication and merging of skyrmions”,
X. C. Zhang, M. Ezawa, and Yan Zhou*
Scientific Reports, 5, 9400, (2015).
Cited more than 300 times within three years.
Ranked top 100 high citation paper amongst ~ 11,000 papers published in Sci. Rep. in 2015
Web of Science “Highly cited paper”
received enough citations to place in the top 0.1% of papers in the field of Physics by web of science
16) “Deterministic creation and deletion of a single magnetic skyrmion observed by direct time-resolved X-ray microscopy”
Seonghoon Woo (Co-first author), Kyung Mee Song (Co-first author), Xichao Zhang (Co-first author), Motohiko Ezawa, Yan Zhou, Xiaoxi Liu, Markus Weigand, Jun Woo Choi, Byoung-Chul Min, Hyun Cheol Koo, Joonyeon Chang
Nature Electronics, 1, 288-296, (2018)
Selected as Cover of the May issue of Nature Electronics
Highlighted by “News and Views” of Nature Electronics
Highlighted by Physics Today: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.1.20180517a/full/
17) “A compact skyrmionic leaky-integrate-fire spiking neuron device”
Xing Chen, Wang Kang, Daoqian Zhu, Xichao Zhang, Na Lei, Youguang Zhang, Yan Zhou and Weisheng Zhao
Nanoscale, 10, 6139, (2018) DOI:10.1039/C7NR09722K
18) “Current-driven dynamics and inhibition of the skyrmion Hall effect of ferrimagnetic skyrmions in GdFeCo films”
Seonghoon Woo, Kyung Mee Song, Xichao Zhang, Yan Zhou, Motohiko Ezawa, S. Finizio, J. Raabe, Jun Woo Choi, Byoung-Chul Min, Hyun Cheol Koo, Joonyeon Chang
Nature Communications, 9, 959, (2018).
Web of Science “Highly cited paper”
19) “Direct imaging of an inhomogeneous electric current distribution using the trajectory of magnetic half-skyrmions”
Senfu Zhang, Xichao Zhang, Junwei Zhang, Arnab Ganguly, Jing Xia, Yan Wen, Qiang Zhang, Guoqiang Yu, Zhipeng Hou, Wenhong Wang, Yong Peng, Gang Xiao, Aurelien Manchon, Jürgen Kosel, Yan Zhou and Xixiang Zhang
Science Advances, 6, eaay1876 (2020).