S. T. Chyczeski, H. Lee, S. Li, M. Eladl, J.-F. Zheng, A. Hoffmann, and W. Zhu,
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 17, 21996 (2025).
Author: Axel Hoffmann
Prof. Axel Hoffmann joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in summer 2019. Before his appointment at UIUC he was the Senior Group Leader of the Magnetic Thin Film Group within the Materials Science Division at the Argonne National Laboratory. His research interests encompass a wide variety of magnetism related subjects, including basic properties of magnetic heterostructures, spin-transport in novel geometries, and biomedical applications of magnetism. His main research focus has recently been on pure spin currents investigated by magnetotransport and magnetization dynamic measurements. He has more than 200 publications with combined more than 8000 citations (h-index: 49), four book chapters, and three magnetism-related U.S. patents. In addition, he is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Physics. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, American Vacuum Society, and IEEE. Furthermore, he was in 2011 a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Magnetics Society, received in 2015 the Outstanding Researcher Award by the Prairie Section of the American Vacuum Society, in 2016 was awarded a President’s International Fellowship from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, received in 2017 the Distinguished Performance Award from the University of Chicago, and was selected as a Highly Cited Researcher by the Web of Science in 2019.
Single-shot electrical detection of short-wavelength magnon pulse transmission in a magnonic thin-film waveguide
M. Song, J. Lim, W. Zhang, D. A. Bozhko, R. Divan, A. Hoffmann, K.-J. Kim, V. Novosad, and Y. Li,
npj Spintronics 3, 12 (2025).
Unconventional Spin-Orbit Torques Due to Reduced Crystal Symmetries
R. Klause, S. Li, Y. Xiao, J. Gibbons, H.-C. Ni, J. Qian, J.-M. Zuo, E. E. Fullerton, and A. Hoffmann,
IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 61, 1300207 (2025).
Spin-Polarized Antiferromagnetic Metals
S. Shim, M Mehraeen, J. Sklenar, S. S.-L. Zhang, A. Hoffmann, and N. Mason,
Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics 16, 103 (2025).
Axel Hoffmann selected as 2024 Highly Cited Researcher
The Web of Science has selected Axel Hoffmann as a Highly Cited Researcher in 2024, which is the fifth year in a row. The list recognizes leading researchers in the sciences and social sciences from around the world. It is based on an analysis of journal article publication and citation data, an objective measure of a researcher’s influence, from 2013-2023. More details can be found in the Illinois News Feed.
Unconventional fieldlike spin torques in CrPt3
R. Klause, Y. Xiao, J. Gibbons, V. P. Amin, K. D. Belashchenko, D. Go, E. E. Fullerton, and A. Hoffmann,
Physical Review Applied 22, 044043 (2024).
Unraveling the origin of antiferromagnetic coupling at YIG/permalloy interface
J. Qian, Y. Li, Z. Jiang, R. Busch, H.-C. Ni, T.-H. Lo, A. Hoffmann, A. Schleife, and J. M. Zuo,
Physical Review Materials 8, 104405 (2024).
Numerical simulation projects in micromagnetics with Jupyter
M. Lonsky, M. Lang, S. Holt, S. A. Pathak, R. Klause, T.-H. Lo, M. Beg, A. Hoffmann, and H. Fangohr,
American Journal of Physics 92, 794 (2024).
Myoung-Woo Yoo explores systematically thermal effects in spintronics devices
Myoung Woo Yoo has demonstrated a new method, which allows to quantitatively evaluate thermal effects in spintronics devices. This approach is also applicable to other possible microelectronics devices. More details can be found in the UIUC news release and also in the related published paper in APL Materials, which also has been highlighted as an editor’s pick.
Tzu-Hsiang Lo receives Study Abroad Scholarship from Taiwan
Tzu-Hsiang Lo was awarded a “Study Abroad Scholarship” from the Ministry of Education of the Taiwanese Government. During his two year research supported by this scholarship he will focus on non-reciprocal magnon phenomena.