Publications

Recent Selected Publications

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 (2025).

Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Sayeef Salahuddin, Suman Datta, Carlos H. Diaz, Dmitri E. Nikonov, Ian A. Young, Donhee Ham, Meng-Fan Chang, Win-San Khwa, Ashwin Sanjay Lele, Christian Binek, Yen-Lin Huang, Yuan-Chen Sun, Ying-Hao Chu, Bhagwati Prasad, et al., "Roadmap on low-power electronics", APL Materials vol. 12(9) 2024.

Adam Erickson, Syed Qamar Abbas Shah, Ather Mahmood, Pratyush Buragohain, Ilja Fescenko, Alexei Gruverman, Christian Binek, and Abdelghani Laraoui, "Imaging Local Effects of Voltage and Boron Doping on Spin Reversal in Antiferromagnetic Magnetoelectric Cr₂O₃ Thin Films and Devices", Advanced Functional Materials (August 2024) 

Ather Mahmood, Jamie L. Weaver, Syed Qamar Abbas Shah, Will Echtenkamp, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Peter A. Dowben, Christian Binek, "Post Deposition Interfacial Néel Temperature Tuning in Magnetoelectric B:Cr₂O₃," Adv. Phys. Res. 1, 2470001 (2024).
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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). 

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.

Ather Mahmood, Will Echtenkamp, Mike Street, Jun-Lei Wang, Shi Cao, Takashi Komesu, Peter A. Dowben, Pratyush Buragohain, Haidong Lu, Alexei Gruverman, Arun Parthasarathy, Shaloo Rakheja, and Christian Binek, "Voltage controlled Néel vector rotation in zero magnetic field," Nature Communications 12, 1674 (2021).

Sean Knight, Dharmalingam Prabhakaran, Christian Binek, and Mathias Schubert, "Electromagnon excitation in cupric oxide measured by Fabry-Pérot enhanced terahertz Mueller matrix ellipsometry," Scientific Reports 9, 1353 (2019).

C.-P. Kwan, M. Street, A. Mahmood, W. Echtenkamp, M. Randle, K. He, J. Nathawat, N. Arabchigavkani, B. Barut, S. Yin, R. Dixit, U. Singisetti, C. Binek, and J. P. Bird, "Space-charge limited conduction in epitaxial chromia films grown on elemental and oxide-based metallic substrates," AIP Advances 9, 055018 (2019).

Jun-Lei Wang, Will Echtenkamp, Ather Mahmood, and Christian Binek, "Voltage controlled magnetism in Cr₂O₃ based all-thin-film systems," J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 486, 165262 (2019).

Uday Singh,  W. Echtenkamp,  M. Street,  Ch. Binek, and  S. Adenwalla, "Local Writing of Exchange Biased Domains in a Hetero-structure of Co/Pd Pinned by Magnetoelectric Chromia," Adv. Funct. Mater. 26, 7470–7478 (2016).

Junlei Wang and Christian Binek, "Dispersion of Electric-Field-Induced Faraday Effect in Magnetoelectric Cr₂O₃," Phys. Rev. Applied 5, 031001 (2016).

M. Street, W. Echtenkamp, Takashi Komesu, Shi Cao, P. A. Dowben, and Ch. Binek, "Increasing the Néel temperature of magnetoelectric chromia for voltage-controlled spintronics," Appl. Phys. Lett. 104, 222402 (2014).

L. Fallarino, A. Berger, and Ch. Binek, "Giant temperature dependence of the spin reversal field in magnetoelectric chromia," Appl. Phys. Lett. 104, 022403 (2014).

W. Echtenkamp and Ch. Binek, "Electric Control of Exchange Bias Training," Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 187204 (2013).

Junlei Wang, J. A. Colón Santana, N. Wu, C. Karunakaran, Jian Wang, P. A. Dowben, and Ch. Binek, "Magnetoelectric Fe₂ TeO₆ thin films," J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 26, 055012 (2014).

Ch. Binek, "Viewpoint: Controlling Magnetism with a Flip of a Switch," Physics 6, 13 (2013).

H. Lu, T. A. George, Y. Wang, I. Ketsman, J. D. Burton, C.-W. Bark, S. Ryu, D. J. Kim, J. Wang, C. Binek, P. A. Dowben, A. Sokolov, C.-B. Eom, E. Y. Tsymbal, and A. Gruverman, "Electric modulation of magnetization at the BaTiO₃ / La_0.6Sr_0.3MnO₃ interfaces," Appl. Phys. Lett. 100, 232904 (2012).

Yi Wang, Xi He, T. Mukherjee, M. R. Fitzsimmons, S. Sahoo, and Ch. Binek, "Magnetometry and transport data complement polarized neutron reflectometry in magnetic depth profiling," J. Appl. Phys. 110, 103914 (2011).

T. Mukherjee, S. Michalski, R. Skomski, D. J. Sellmyer, and Ch. Binek, "Overcoming the spin-multiplicity limit of entropy by means of lattice degrees of freedom: a minimalist model," Phys. Rev. B. 83, 214413 (2011).

N. Wu, Xi He, A. L. Wysocki, U. Lanke, T. Komesu, K. D. Belashchenko, Ch. Binek, and P. A. Dowben, (highlighted article), "Imaging and Control of Surface Magnetization Domains in a Magnetoelectric Antiferromagnet," Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 087202 (2011).

T. Mukherjee, M. Pleimling, and Ch. Binek, "Probing equilibrium by nonequilibrium dynamics: Aging in Co/Cr superlattices," Phys. Rev. B 82, 134425 (2010). 

Xi He, Yi Wang, Ning Wu, A. N. Caruso, E. Vescovo., K. D. Belashchenko, P. A. Dowben & Ch. Binek, "Robust isothermal electric control of exchange bias at room temperature," Nature Mater. 9, 579–585 (2010).

T. Mukherjee, S. Sahoo, R. Skomski, D. J. Sellmyer, and Ch. Binek, "Magnetocaloric properties of Co/Cr superlattices," Phys. Rev. B 79, 144406 (2009).

S. Sahoo, S. Polisetty, C.-G. Duan, Sitaram S. Jaswal, E. Y. Tsymbal, and Ch. Binek, "Ferroelectric control of magnetism in BaTiO₃ /Fe heterostructures via interface strain coupling," Phys. Rev. B 76, 092108 (2007).

Ch. Binek, S. Polisetty, Xi He, T. Mukherjee, R. Rajesh and J. Redepenning, "Nonextensivity in magnetic nanoparticle ensembles," Phys. Rev. B 74, 054432 (2006).

Ch. Binek, S. Polisetty, Xi He and A. Berger, "Exchange bias training effect in coupled all ferromagnetic bilayer structures," Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 067201 (2006).

Pavel Borisov, Andreas Hochstrat, Xi Chen, Wolfgang Kleemann, and Christian Binek, "Magnetoelectric Switching of Exchange Bias," Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 117203 (2005).

Ch. Binek and B.Doudin, "Magnetoelectronics with magnetoelectrics," J. Phys. Condens. Matter 17, L39 (2005), see also Top Papers 2005 showcase 

Ch. Binek, "Training of the exchange- bias effect: A simple analytic approach," Phys. Rev. B. 70, 014421 (2004). 

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