Really excited to participate the 12th International Symposium on Hysteresis Modeling and Micromagnetics (HMM2019) in Crete, Greece from 19th-22nd of May, 2019. Yu Li, a PhD member of our team, presented a talk in the first session “Magnetic Solitons I”, with the title “Controllable THz Bloch-point propagation in the switching process of magnetic skyrmions“. We also presented a poster from our recently published work “Collective antiskyrmion-mediated phase transition and defect-induced melting in chiral magnetic films“.

Excited to participate at the Skyrmion workshop at Trinity Hall, the University of Cambridge, organised by the U.K.’s Skyrmion Project, from Tuesday 28th-Thursday 30th of August 2018. Happy to contribute a talk and participate in the panel discussion : “Prospects for Disruptive Skyrmion Technology”.

Excited to be at the the Future Perspectives on Novel Magnetic Materials workshop taking part from May 29-June 3, 2018 in beautiful Santorini, Greece. The workshop’s program focused on the development of high anisotropy magnetic materials, ii) non-collinear spin structures that exhibit skyrmion and anti-skyrmions and iii) magnetic materials that display topological transport and electronic properties. Happy to be invited to contribute a talk on Thursday the 31st of May, on recent numerical and experimental results on magnetic skyrmions.

Very interesting visit (14-16/02/2018) and discussions with Prof. Pinuaga and Prof. Banerjee at the Cognitive Systems and Materials Center, University of Groningen. Happy to participate at the Physics Colloquium with a talk “Towards Skyrmion-based Electronics”.

At the The Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen.

The Introduction to the skyrmions lecture is now online! It is available at the ISOE youtube channel.

Happy to have contributed lectures on the X-ray imaging of nanostructures and Magnetic Skyrmions. The lectures were part of the International School of Oxide Electronics 2017 in beautiful Cargèse, Corsica, with two weeks of lectures on topics such as multiferroics, oxide based devices for electronics and spintronics, domain walls,oxide interfaces, topogically insulating oxides.

Excited to take part at the International School of Oxide Electronics 2017 in beautiful Cargèse, Corsica, with two weeks of lectures on topics such as multiferroics, oxide based devices for electronics and spintronics, domain walls,oxide interfaces, topogically insulating oxides. Happy to be contributing lectures on the X-ray imaging of nanostructures and Magnetic Skyrmions.

Excited to see our recent paper on the demonstration of nanoscale room temperature (R.T.) sub-100nm chiral skyrmions, with the Paul Scherrer Institut and CNRS/Thales, ( Nature Nanotechnology. 11, 444–448 (2016) ) selected as a leading paper. The selection highlights papers from across the University of Manchester’s Faculty of Science and Engineering. The highlight describes the discovery of room temperature individual nanoscale chiral skyrmions by means of high resolution X-ray imaging. The research was performed in the context of the MAGicSky EU research project and this observation can enable further fundamental studies on the very rich physics of skyrmions as well as serve as a basis for the development of skyrmion-based memory and logic devices.

Skyrmion-based magnetic memory concept. 

Web of Science now ranks our recent paper with the Paul Scherrer Institut and CNRS/Thales on nanoscale room temperature (R.T.) sub-100nm chiral skyrmions ( Nat. Nanotech. 11, 444–448 (2016) ) as a “Highly Cited Paper” and a “Hot Paper”. The paper describes the discovery of room temperature individual nanoscale chiral skyrmions by means of high resolution X-ray imaging. The research was performed in the context of the MAGicSky EU research project. This observation can serve as a basis for the development of skyrmion-based memory and logic devices and enable further fundamental studies on the very rich physics of skyrmions.

The MAGicSky consortium just published online an informative brief overview on “The history and future of skyrmions within MAGicSky“. Find out about skyrmions, what they are, their basic properties and their history, as well as how they can be used to revolutionise the data storage industry. MAGicSky is a Horizon 2020 European Framework Programme for Research and Innovation project that started in September 2015 and will run for three years.

The University of Manchester is now 35th in the world, a rise from 41st in 2015, according to the 2016 Academic Ranking of World Universities – often known as the Shanghai ranking. In September, Manchester was also placed 33rd the world according to the QS World Universities rankings. The continuous rise is largely attributed to an increase in the number of its highly-cited researchers and the University’s leading research profile.