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.

Excited to be invited for a research visit at the Crete Center for Quantum Complexity and Nanotechnology (QCN) during 26th of July to 5th of August 2016. I will be giving a talk at the QCN seminar series on “Room temperature chiral skyrmions and skyrmion dynamics and inertia“.

We are happy to participate at the MAGicSky progress meeting in Aachen, July 18-19 2016. We demonstrated the latest X-ray imaging of magnetic skyrmion processes from the joint effort of PSI / Manchester and CNRS/Thales, while the results and plans for the next 6 months from all the partners were presented.

The “Spin Orbit Coupling and Topology in Low Dimensions ” Workshop is well on its way with lots of interesting results and discussions on Skyrmions and Spin Orbit Coupling induced effects. Attendants of the SOCSIS 2016 workshop in a social and networking event after the day’s talks on Wednesday 29/06/2016.

The workshop focuses on  SOC-induced effects in the various systems:  Rashba interfaces, topological insulators, interface between oxides, graphene with enhanced SOC and other 2D materials, magnetic ultra-thin films with interface-induced chiral spin interactions as well as skyrmions and chiral domain walls in particular. We are delighted to be presenting a talk on “Room temperature magnetic skyrmions and skyrmion dynamics in nanostructures”. The workshop is taking place at the wonderful Anargyreios and Korgialeneios School of Spetses (A.K.S.S.) Foundation and it is organised by QCN (The Crete Center for Quantum Complexity and Nanotechnology).