Recent Selected Publications

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 FeTeO6 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 BaTiO/ La0.6Sr0.3MnO3 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). 

 

Complete List>>

Monograph

Ising-type Antiferromagnets

Ising-type Antiferromagnets
Model Systems in Statistical Physics and in the Magnetism of Exchange Bias (2003)
Christian Binek

Textbook

Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics: An Integrated Approach

Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics: An Integrated Approach (2014)
Robert J. Hardy & Christian Binek 

Book chapters

Nanoscale book

Chapter: "Potential of Nonvolatile Magnetoelectric Devices for Spintronic Applications" (2015)
Peter A. Dowben, Christian Binek, and Dmitri E. Nikonov

 

Zabel

Chapter "Multiferroic and
Magnetoelectric Materials" (2013)
Wolfgang Kleemann & Christian Binek

 

Nanoscale

Chapter 6: Tunable Exchange Bias Effects (2009)
Christian Binek