Yan Zhou

Dr. Zhou Yan obtained his bachelor degree in University of Science and Technology of China in 2003 and MPhil degree in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2005. He got his PhD degree from Royal Institute of Technology (KTH, Sweden) in 2009. He mainly works on next-generation spintronics devices including spintronic oscillator, Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory, and magnetic skyrmions for information processing and storage application. Dr. Zhou has published more than 200 papers, including high-impact papers in Proceedings of the IEEE, Nature Physics, Nature Electronics, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, NPG Asia Materials and Nano Letters. His Google Scholar citation is ~10000 with H-index of 50, more than 30 articles were selected for Web Of Science Highly Cited paper. His work has been reported by Phys.org, Science daily, IEEE Spectrum, Storage Newsletter etc. Prof. Zhou is a senior member of IEEE and editorial board member of Scientific Reports, Editorial review board member of IEEE Magnetics Letters. He is reviewer of Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Physics, Nature Materials, Nature Communications, Review of Modern Physics, Science Advances, Nano Letters, Physical Review X, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Applied Physics Letters and IEEE Transactions on Electronic Devices etc.

EDUCATION BACKGROUND

• PhD (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden)
• MPhil (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
• BS (University of Science and Technology of China)

RESEARCH FIELD

• Spintronics, Condensed matter Physics, Magnetic materials and devices.

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS （ten reprensentative papers）

• “Exchange-torque-triggered fast switching of antiferromagnetic domains”
  J. Xu, X. Zhang, J. Xia, Chao Zhou, Dong Shi, Haoran Chen, Tong Wu, Qian Li, Haifeng Ding, Yan Zhou*, Yizheng Wu*
  Physical Review Letters, 128, 137201 (2022).

• "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).

• “Magnetic skyrmions: intriguing physics and new spintronic device concepts”
  Yan Zhou*
  National Science Review, vol. 6, No. 2, pp 210-212 (2019)

• “Topology-Dependent Brownian Gyromotion of a Single Skyrmion”
  Le Zhao, Zidong Wang, Xichao Zhang, Xue Liang, Jing Xia, Keyu Wu, Heng-An Zhou, Yiqing Dong, Guoqiang Yu, Kang L. Wang, Xiaoxi Liu, Yan Zhou*, and Wanjun Jiang*
  Physical Review Letters, 125, 027206 (2020).

• “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*
  Nano Letters, 19 (1), 353-361, (2019)

• “Magnetic bilayer skyrmion without topological hall effect”
  X. C. Zhang, Yan Zhou*, M. Ezawa
  Nature Communications, 7, 10293 (2016).

• “Skyrmion dynamics in a frustrated ferromagnetic film and current-induced helicity locking-unlocking“
  Xichao Zhang, Jing Xia, Yan Zhou*, Xiaoxi Liu, Han Zhang, and Motohiko Ezawa
  Nature Communications, 8, 1717, (2017)

• “Skyrmion-Based Dynamic Magnonic Crystal”,
  F. Ma, Yan Zhou*, H. B. Braun, and W. S. Lew
  Nano Letters, 15, 4029, (2015).

• “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)

• “Skyrmion-Electronics: An Overview and Outlook”
  Wang Kang, Yangqi Huang, Xichao Zhang, Yan Zhou*, and Weisheng Zhao*
  Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 104, pp. 2040, No. 10, October 2016.