Topology optimization of differentiable microstructures

Recent years have seen a growing interest in topology optimization of functionally graded microstructures, characterized by an array of microstructures with varying volume fractions. However, microstructures optimized at slightly different volume fractions do not necessarily connect well when placed adjacently. Furthermore, optimization is...

Alternating optimization of design and stress for stress-constrained topology optimization

Handling stress constraints is an important topic in topology optimization. In this paper, we introduce an interpretation of stresses as optimization variables, leading to an augmented Lagrangian formulation. This formulation takes two sets of optimization variables, i.e., an auxiliary stress variable per element, in addition to a density...

Electrically Controllable Van der Waals Antiferromagnetic Spin Valve

We propose a spin valve that is based on van der Waals antiferromagnetism and is fully electrically controlled. The device is composed of two antiferromagnetic terminals that allow for vertical bias control and a linked central scattering potential region. The magnetoresistance varies significantly when the bias orientations in two terminals...

Spin-valley polarized quantum anomalous Hall effect and a valley-controlled half-metal in bilayer graphene

We investigate topological phases of bilayer graphene subject to antiferromagnetic exchange fields, interlayer bias, and light irradiation. We discover that at finite bias and light intensity the system transitions into a previously unknown spin-valley polarized quantum anomalous Hall (SVP-QAH) insulator state, for which the subsystem of one...

Topological valley transport of gapped Dirac magnons in bilayer ferromagnetic insulators

Bilayer Heisenberg ferromagnetic insulators hold degenerate terahertz Dirac magnon modes associated with two opposite valleys of the hexagonal Brillouin zone. We show that this energy degeneracy can be removed by breaking of the inversion symmetry (I), leading to a topological magnon valley current. We show furthermore that this current leads...