Publications

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  Correlation between material properties, crystalline transitions, and point defects in RF sputtered (N,Mg)-doped copper oxide thin films

  Thomas Ratz, Emile Fourneau, Naama Sliti, Cedric Malherbe, Amaury Baret, Benedicte Vertruyen, Alejandro V. Silhanek, and Ngoc Duy Nguyen

  ACS Applied Electronic Materials accepted, xx (2024).

 

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  Laser Engineered Architectures for Magnetic Flux Manipulation on Superconducting Nb Thin Films

  E. Martínez, N. Lejeune, J. Frechilla, L. Porta-Velilla, E. Fourneau, L. A. Angurel, G. F. de la Fuente, J. Bonse, A. V. Silhanek, A. Badía-Majós

  Appl. Surf. Sci. (Accepted), (2025).

 

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  Investigation of mode-induced spin wave transmission blockage by in-situ nanoscale grooves

  C. Delforge, N. Lejeune, S. Singh, A. V. Silhanek, E. Fourneau

  Small, 2404542 (2024).

 

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  Dimensional crossover of microscopic magnetic metasurfaces for magnetic field amplification

  N. Lejeune, E. Fourneau, A. Barrera, O. Morris, O. Leonard, J. A. Arregi, C. Navau, V. Uhlir, S. Bending, A. Palau, A. V. Silhanek

  APL Mater. 12, 071126 (2024).

 

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  Laser nanostructured metasurfaces in Nb superconducting thin films

  Antonio Badía-Majós, Elena Martínez, Luis A. Angurel, Germán F. de la Fuente, Emile Fourneau, Stefan Marinković, Alejandro V. Silhanek

  Applied Surface Science 649, 159164 (2023).

 

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  Microscale Metasurfaces for On-Chip Magnetic Flux Concentration

  Emile Fourneau, Jon Ander Arregi, Aleix Barrera, Ngoc Duy Nguyen, Simon Bending, Alvaro Sanchez, Vojtech Uhlir, Anna Palau, and Alejandro V. Silhanek

  Advanced Materials Technologies 2, 2200042 (2023).

 

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  Effect of moderated electropulsing on Nb multiterminal transport bridges

  S. Marinković, E. A. Abbey, D. A. D. Chaves, S. Collienne, E. Fourneau, L. Jiang, C. Xue, Y. H. Zhou, W. A. Ortiz, M. Motta, N. D. Nguyen, A. Volodin, J. Van de Vondel, and A. V. Silhanek

  Phys. Rev. Appl. 19, 054009 (2023).

 

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  Tunable Perpendicular Magnetoresistive Sensor Driven by Shape and Substrate Induced Magnetic Anisotropy

  Aleix Barrera, Emile Fourneau, Sergi Martín, Josep Maria Batllori,Jordi Alcalá, Lluís Balcells, Narcís Mestres, Ngoc Duy Nguyen, Alvaro Sanchez, Alejandro V. Silhanek, Anna Palau

  Advanced Sensor Research, 2200042 (2022).

 

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  From Electric Doping Control to Thermal Defect Nucleation in Perovskites

  S. Marinković, A. Fernández-Rodríguez, E. Fourneau, M. Cabero, H. Wang, N. D. Nguyen, J. Gazquez, N. Mestres, A. Palau, A. V. Silhanek

  Adv. Mater. Interfaces 9, 2200953 (2022).

 

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  Mg-doped Cu2O thin films with enhanced functional properties grown by magnetron sputtering under optimized pressure conditions

  N. Sliti, E. Fourneau, T. Ratz, S. Touihri, N. D. Nguyen

  Ceramics International 48, 23748-23754(2022).

 

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  Tunable domino effect of thermomagnetic instabilities in superconducting films with multiply-connected topological structures

  Lu Jiang, Cun Xue, Stefan Marinković, E Fourneau, Tie-Quan Xu, Xin-Wei Cai, N D Nguyen, A V Silhanek and You-He Zhou

  New J. Phys. 24, 083017 (2022).

 

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  A roadmap for the design of all ferromagnetic four-terminal spin valves and the extraction of spin diffusion length

  E. Fourneau, A. V. Silhanek, and N. D. Nguyen

  Phys. Rev. Applied 15, 034058 (2021).

 

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  Origin of the Giant Spin-Detection Efficiency in Tunnel-Barrier-Based Electrical Spin Detectors

  E. Fourneau, A. V. Silhanek, and N. D. Nguyen

  Phys. Rev. Applied 14, 024020 (2020).

 

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  Electromigration-induced resistance switching in indented Al microstrips

  J. Lombardo, S. Collienne, A. Petrillo, E. Fourneau, N. D. Nguyen, A. V. Silhanek.

  New J. Phys. 21, 113015 (2019).

 

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  Static and dynamic properties of selected micromagnetic devices

  Emile Fourneau, defended on 15 November 2022

  Promotors: Alejandro Silhanek and Ngoc Duy Nguyen
  Jury: Inga Fischer, Eric Bousquet, Bartel Van Waeyenberge, Benoit Vanderheyden, Matthieu Verstraete.

Education

• 2016 – 2022: PhD student at EPNM (Uliege)
  Topic: Static and Dynamic Properties of Selected Micromagnetic Devices
  Advisor: Prof. N. D. Nguyen and Prof. A. V. Silhanek (University of Liège)

• 2013 – 2015: Master in material science, Civil engineering, Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain.
• Master thesis: Ab initio study of an superionic conductor, Li₁₀Ge₂S₁₂.
  Advisor: Prof. Dr. G-M. Rignanese and Prof. Dr. G. Hauthier
• 2010 – 2013: Bachelor in civil engineering, Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain.