About Myself

I am an experimental spintronics researcher working on spin textures and domain dynamics in three-dimensional spintronic systems. My work combines magnetic thin-film heterostructures, nanofabrication, Kerr microscopy, Brillouin light scattering, magnetotransport, and advanced magnetic characterization for racetrack-memory and skyrmion-based devices.

Recent Research Profile

Three-dimensional spintronic systems

Combining micro/nanoscale 3D additive manufacturing with thin-film growth and device fabrication to explore magnetic behavior in non-planar and three-dimensional geometries.

Skyrmion dynamics and devices

Generation, motion, electrical detection, and functional-device concepts for magnetic skyrmions, including racetrack-memory, shift-register, and circulator geometries.

Advanced magnetic characterization

Magneto-optical Kerr microscopy, magnetotransport, Brillouin light scattering, and synchrotron-based imaging for magnetic domains, spin textures, and nanostructured devices.

Experimental Skills

Thin-film growth

Magnetron sputtering; electron-beam evaporation

Device fabrication

Electron-beam lithography; direct laser writing; mask lithography; Ar ion milling; oxygen plasma cleaning

3D nanofabrication

Focused electron-beam induced deposition (FEBID); two-photon lithography (TPL)

Magnetic and transport characterization

MOKE microscopy; magnetotransport with probe station/PPMS; vibrating sample magnetometry; magnetic force microscopy

Synchrotron microscopy

Photoemission electron microscopy (PEEM); scanning transmission X-ray microscopy (STXM)

Optical instrumentation

Brillouin light scattering; MOKE microscopy; MOKE magnetometry

Programming and simulation

Python; LabVIEW; MATLAB; COMSOL; Fortran; C

Scientific software

AutoCAD; Blender; ParaView; ImageJ; Igor Pro; OriginPro

Selected Publications

  1. 2020

    Topology-dependent Brownian gyromotion of a single skyrmion

    L Zhao*, Z Wang*, X Zhang*, X Liang*, J Xia, K Wu, HA Zhou, Y Dong, G Yu, ...

    Physical Review Letters 125 (2), 027206, 2020

    84 citations
  2. 2020

    Thermal generation, manipulation and thermoelectric detection of skyrmions

    Z Wang*, M Guo*, HA Zhou*, L Zhao*, T Xu, R Tomasello, H Bai, Y Dong, ...

    Nature Electronics 3 (11), 672-679, 2020

    162 citations
  3. 2022

    Experimental realization of a skyrmion circulator

    C Song*, L Zhao*, J Liu*, W Jiang

    Nano Letters 22 (23), 9638-9644, 2022

    18 citations
  4. 2024

    Realization of skyrmion shift register

    L Zhao*, C Hua*, C Song, W Yu, W Jiang

    Science Bulletin 69 (15), 2370-2378, 2024

    20 citations
  5. 2024

    Acoustic-driven magnetic skyrmion motion

    Y Yang*, L Zhao*, D Yi, T Xu, Y Chai, C Zhang, D Jiang, Y Ji, D Hou, ...

    Nature Communications 15 (1), 1018, 2024

    57 citations
  6. 2025

    Imprinting of stochastic magnetic domain configurations by fluctuating interlayer coupling

    M Ma*, L Zhao*, W Jiang

    Applied Physics Letters 126 (1), 2025

    1 citations

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