Skyrmions are localized solitonic spin textures with protected topology, which are promising as information carriers in ultra-dense and energy-efficient logics and memories. Magnetic skyrmions have been recently obser...
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Chirality is a ubiquitous phenomenon in the natural world. Many biomolecules without inversion symmetry such as amino acids and sugars are chiral molecules. Measuring and controlling molecular chirality at a high prec...
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Electronic tattoos(e-tattoos),also known as epidermal electronics,are ultra-thin and ultra-soft noninvasive but skin-conformable devices with capabilities including physiological sensing and transdermal stimulation an...
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Electronic tattoos(e-tattoos),also known as epidermal electronics,are ultra-thin and ultra-soft noninvasive but skin-conformable devices with capabilities including physiological sensing and transdermal stimulation and *** fabrication of e-tattoos out of conventional inorganic electronic materials used to be tedious and *** developed cut-and-paste method has significantly simplified the process and lowered the ***,existing cut-and-paste method entails a medical tape on which the electronic tattoo sensors should be pasted,which increases tattoo thickness and degrades its *** address this problem,here we report a slightly modified cut-and-paste method to fabricate low-cost,open-mesh e-tattoos with a total thickness of just 1.5μm.E-tattoos of such thinness can be directly pasted on human skin and conforms to natural skin *** demonstrate that this ultra-thin,tape-free e-tattoo can confidently measure electrocardiogram(ECG),skin temperature,and skin *** rate and even respiratory rate can be extracted from the ECG signals.A special advantage of such ultra-thin e-tattoo is that it is capable of high-fidelity sensing with minimized motion artifacts under various body *** of perspiration are found to be insignificant due to the breathability of such e-tattoos.
We report the discovery and direct visualization of skyrmion clusters with mutually orthogonal orientations of constituent isolated skyrmions in chiral liquid crystals and ferromagnets. We show that the nascent conica...
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We report the discovery and direct visualization of skyrmion clusters with mutually orthogonal orientations of constituent isolated skyrmions in chiral liquid crystals and ferromagnets. We show that the nascent conical state underlies the attracting inter-skyrmion potential, whereas an encompassing homogeneous state leads to the repulsive skyrmion-skyrmion interaction. The crossover between different regimes of skyrmion interaction could be identified upon changing layer thickness and/or the surface anchoring. We develop a phenomenological theory describing two types of skyrmions and the underlying mechanisms of their interaction. We show that isolated horizontal skyrmions with the same polarity may approach a vertical isolated skyrmion from both sides and thus constitute two energetically different configurations which are also observed experimentally. In an extreme regime of mutual attraction, the skyrmions wind around each other forming compact superstructures with undulations. We also indicate that our numerical simulations on skyrmion clusters are valid in a parameter range corresponding to the A-phase region of cubic helimagnets.
We show that moiré bands of twisted homobilayers can be topologically nontrivial, and illustrate the tendency by studying valence band states in ±K valleys of twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides...
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We show that moiré bands of twisted homobilayers can be topologically nontrivial, and illustrate the tendency by studying valence band states in ±K valleys of twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides, in particular, bilayer MoTe2. Because of the large spin-orbit splitting at the monolayer valence band maxima, the low energy valence states of the twisted bilayer MoTe2 at the +K (−K) valley can be described using a two-band model with a layer-pseudospin magnetic field Δ(r) that has the moiré period. We show that Δ(r) has a topologically nontrivial skyrmion lattice texture in real space, and that the topmost moiré valence bands provide a realization of the Kane-Mele quantum spin-Hall model, i.e., the two-dimensional time-reversal-invariant topological insulator. Because the bands narrow at small twist angles, a rich set of broken symmetry insulating states can occur at integer numbers of electrons per moiré cell.
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