1.  “Dynamics of magnetic skyrmion clusters driven by spin-polarized current with a spatially varied polarization”
Wenjing Jiang, Jing Xia, Xichao Zhang, Yifan Song, Chuang Ma, Hans Fangohr, G. P. Zhao, Xiaoxi Liu, Weisheng Zhao, and Yan Zhou*
IEEE Magnetics Letters, 9, 3102905 (2018).

2.  “Skyrmions in magnetic tunnel junctions”
Xueying Zhang, Xichao Zhang, Wenlong Cai, Yu Zhang, Kaihua Cao, Na Lei, Wang Kang, Haiming Yu, Yan Zhou, Weisheng Zhao
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 10, 16887−16892 (2018).

3.  “Deterministic creation and deletion of a single magnetic skyrmion observed by direct time-resolved X-ray microscopy”
Seonghoon Woo(Co-first author), Kyung Mee Song(Co-first author), Xichao Zhang (Co-first author), Motohiko Ezawa, Yan Zhou, Xiaoxi Liu, Markus Weigand, Jun Woo Choi, Byoung-Chul Min, Hyun Cheol Koo, Joonyeon Chang
Nature Electronics, 1, 288-296, (2018)
Selected as Cover of the May issue of Nature Electronics
Highlighted by “News and Views” of Nature Electronics

4.  “Vortical Structures for Nanomagnetic Memory Induced by Dipole-Dipole Interaction in Monolayer Disks”
Zhaosen Liu, Xichao Zhang, Orion Ciftja, Yan Zhou, Hou Ian
Superlattices and Microstructures, 117, 495e502 (2018).

5.  “Controllable transport of a skyrmion in a ferromagnetic narrow channel with voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy”
Junlin Wang, Jing Xia, Xichao Zhang, G. P. Zhao, Jing Wu, Yongbing Xu, Zhigang Zou, and Yan Zhou*
Journal of Physics D-Applied Physics, 51, 205002 (2018).

6.  “Dynamics of a magnetic skyrmionium driven by spin waves”
Sai Li, Jing Xia, Xichao Zhang, Motohiko Ezawa, Wang Kang, Xiaoxi Liu, Yan Zhou*, and Weisheng Zhao
Applied Physics Letters, 112, 142404 (2018).

7.  “A compact skyrmionic leaky-integrate-fire spiking neuron device”
Xing Chen, Wang Kang, Daoqian Zhu, Xichao Zhang, Na Lei, Youguang Zhang, Yan Zhou and Weisheng Zhao
Nanoscale, 10, 6139, (2018)
DOI:10.1039/C7NR09722K

8.  “Current-driven dynamics and inhibition of the skyrmion Hall effect of ferrimagnetic skyrmions in GdFeCo films”
Seonghoon Woo, Kyung Mee Song, Xichao Zhang, Yan Zhou, Motohiko Ezawa, S. Finizio, J. Raabe, Jun Woo Choi, Byoung-Chul Min, Hyun Cheol Koo, Joonyeon Chang
Nature Communications, 9, 959, (2018)

9.  “Current-induced instability of domain walls in cylindrical nanowires”
Weiwei Wang, Zhaoyang Zhang, Ryan Pepper, Congpu Mu, Yan Zhou, and Hans Fangohr
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 30, 015801 (2018).

10.  “Skyrmion Racetrack Memory With Random Information Update/Deletion/Insertion”
Daoqian Zhu, Wang Kang, Sai Li, Yangqi Huang, Xichao Zhang, Yan Zhou and Weisheng Zhao
IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 65, 87, No. 1 (2018).
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2017.2769672

11.  “Strain-controlled Skyrmion Creation and Propagation in Ferroelectric/Ferromagnetic Hybrid Wires”
Zhi Li, Youguang Zhang, Yangqi Huang, Chengxiang Wang, Xichao Zhang, Yan Liu, Yan Zhou, Wang Kang, Shradha Chandrashekhar Koli, Na Lei
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 455, 19-24, (2018).

12.  “Creation, transport and detection of imprinted magnetic solitons stabilized by spin-polarized current”
R. P. Loreto, W. A. Moura-Melo, A. R. Pereira, X. Zhang, Yan Zhou, M. Ezawa, and C. I. L. Araujo
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 455, 25-31 (2018).