Topological quantum materials for energy conversion and storage

H Luo, P Yu, G Li, K Yan - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Topological quantum materials (TQMs) have symmetry-protected band structures with useful
electronic properties that have applications in information, sensing, energy and other …

Deterministic switching of a perpendicularly polarized magnet using unconventional spin–orbit torques in WTe2

IH Kao, R Muzzio, H Zhang, M Zhu, J Gobbo, S Yuan… - Nature materials, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Spin–orbit torque (SOT)-driven deterministic control of the magnetic state of a
ferromagnet with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy is key to next-generation spintronic …

All-electric magnetization switching and Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction in WTe2/ferromagnet heterostructures

S Shi, S Liang, Z Zhu, K Cai, SD Pollard, Y Wang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
All-electric magnetization manipulation at low power is a prerequisite for a wide adoption of
spintronic devices. Materials such as heavy metals,–or topological insulators, provide good …

[HTML][HTML] Evidence for topological type-II Weyl semimetal WTe2

P Li, Y Wen, X He, Q Zhang, C Xia, ZM Yu… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Recently, a type-II Weyl fermion was theoretically predicted to appear at the contact of
electron and hole Fermi surface pockets. A distinguishing feature of the surfaces of type-II …

[HTML][HTML] Recent progress in strong spin-orbit coupling van der Waals materials and their heterostructures for spintronic applications

S Shi, X Wang, Y Zhao, W Zhao - Materials Today Electronics, 2023 - Elsevier
The growing need for miniaturization in semiconductor devices has led to an increasing
interest in layered van der Waals (vdW) materials, which offer intriguing physics, atomically …

Chemical principles of topological semimetals

LM Schoop, F Pielnhofer, BV Lotsch - Chemistry of Materials, 2018 - ACS Publications
Initiated by the discovery of topological insulators, topologically non-trivial materials have
attracted immense interest in the physics community in the past decade. One of the latest …

Observation of Fermi arc and its connection with bulk states in the candidate type-II Weyl semimetal

C Wang, Y Zhang, J Huang, S Nie, G Liu, A Liang… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
A kind of topological material, the type-II Weyl semimetal, was proposed recently where the
Weyl points emerge at the contact points of the electron and hole pockets, resulting in a …

Observation of charge to spin conversion in Weyl semimetal at room temperature

B Zhao, D Khokhriakov, Y Zhang, H Fu, B Karpiak… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
The discovery of topological Weyl semimetals has revealed opportunities to realize several
extraordinary physical phenomena in condensed matter physics. Specifically, Weyl …

Radial spin texture of the Weyl fermions in chiral tellurium

G Gatti, D Gosálbez-Martínez, SS Tsirkin, M Fanciulli… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
Trigonal tellurium, a small-gap semiconductor with pronounced magneto-electric and
magneto-optical responses, is among the simplest realizations of a chiral crystal. We have …

Unconventional Charge–Spin Conversion in Weyl‐Semimetal WTe2

B Zhao, B Karpiak, D Khokhriakov… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
An outstanding feature of topological quantum materials is their novel spin topology in the
electronic band structures with an expected large charge‐to‐spin conversion efficiency …