Paula and D.B. Varner Professor of Physics
Director Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience (NCMN)
Director Materials Research Science and Engineer Center (MRSEC Nebraska)
Director Nebraska Nanoscale Facility (NNF)
Scientific Director Nebraska EPSCoR RII Track-1: Emergent Quantum Materials and Technologies (EQUATE)
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
N201A Voelte-Keegan Nanoscience Research Center
JH 310G
Lincoln, NE 68588-0299
Email: cbinek@unl.edu
Phone: (402) 472-5231
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BINEK GROUP NEWS
» Our Nature Communications paper was published: Abhilash Mishra, Robin Karothiya, Syed Qamar Abbas Shah, Arti Kashyap, and Christian Binek, "Axion electrodynamics in a topologically trivial antiferromagnet," Nature Communications vol.17, 7803 (June 2026).
» Another paper was published today: Christian Binek, Syed Qamar Abbas Shah, and Balamurugan Balasubramanian, "Thermodynamics and entropic inference of nanoscale magnetic structures in Gd", J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 37 065705 (Nov. 2024).
» Congratulations Syed on successfully defending your dissertation “Voltage-Controlled Spintronics and Fundamentals of Magnetoelectricity in Magnetoelectric Antiferromagnetic Chromia” and becoming Dr. Syed Qamar Abbas Shah (Oct. 2024).
» "Roadmap on low-power electronics" is published in APL Materials (Sept. 2024).
» Great article in the Nebraska Today about our breakthrough in antiferromagnetic spintronics (Sept. 2024).
» Another paper just got published today in Advanced Functional Materials: "Imaging Local Effects of Voltage and Boron Doping on Spin Reversal in Antiferromagnetic Magnetoelectric Cr2O3 Thin Films and Devices" (August 2024).
» January 2024: Our work is featured on the cover of the Journal of Advanced Physics Research
» August 2023: Co-director of the UNL grand challenges catalyst award “Quantum Approaches Addressing Global Threats” https://research.unl.edu/blog/11-projects-funded-through-grand-challenges-competition/
» Another paper was published today: Ather Mahmood, Jamie L. Weaver, Syed Qamar Abbas Shah, Will Echtenkamp, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Peter A. Dowben, and Christian Binek, "Post Deposition Interfacial Néel Temperature Tuning in Magnetoelectric B:Cr2O3," Adv. Physics Res., 2300061 (2023).
» Our paper was published in Phys. Rev. B: Syed Q. A. Shah, Ather Mahmood, Arun Parthasarathy, and Christian Binek, "Search for magnetoelectric monopole response in Cr2O3 powder," Phys. Rev. B 108, 054437 (2023). Editor’s Suggestion.
» Our paper just got published today, 15 March 2021, in Nature Communications (Vol.12, Article number 1674): "Voltage controlled Néel vector rotation in zero magnetic field".