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Geoffrey S. D. Beach

Geoffrey S. D. Beach

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
53
Citations
15204
World Ranking
9074
National Ranking
2205

Geoffrey S. D. Beach publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Geoffrey S. D. Beach sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 187 publications — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Geoffrey S. D. Beach D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Geoffrey S. D. Beach sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering contributions to the understanding of chiral exchange interactions, spinorbit torques, domain wall and skyrmion dynamics in magnetic thin film materials, heterostructures and nanostructures

Overview

Geoffrey S. D. Beach is affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Physics and Astronomy, Engineering, and Materials Science, with significant contributions in subfields such as Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Condensed Matter Physics; Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials; and Materials Chemistry.

The main topics covered in their work include magnetic properties of thin films, magneto-optical properties and applications, magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials, physics of superconductivity and magnetism, theoretical and computational physics, characterization and applications of magnetic nanoparticles, and magnetic properties and applications.

Geoffrey S. D. Beach has published extensively in several well-known scientific journals and platforms. The most frequent publication venues include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Applied Physics Letters, Physical Review B, Nature Communications, and Physical Review Materials.

Their recent published papers include the following:

  • Ferrimagnetic spintronics, 2021, Nature Materials
  • The role of temperature and drive current in skyrmion dynamics, 2020, Nature Electronics
  • Interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction arising from rare-earth orbital magnetism in insulating magnetic oxides, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Relativistic kinematics of a magnetic soliton, 2020, Science
  • Observation of fluctuation-mediated picosecond nucleation of a topological phase, 2020, Nature Materials

Frequent collaborators in their research include Felix Büttner, Caroline A. Ross, Ivan Lemesh, Lucas Caretta, and Kai Litzius.

In recognition of their work, Geoffrey S. D. Beach was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2020. The citation noted their pioneering contributions to the understanding of chiral exchange interactions, spin-orbit torques, domain wall and skyrmion dynamics in magnetic thin film materials, heterostructures, and nanostructures.

Best Publications

  • Current-driven dynamics of chiral ferromagnetic domain walls

    Satoru Emori;Uwe Bauer;Sung-Min Ahn;Eduardo Martinez

  • Observation of room-temperature magnetic skyrmions and their current-driven dynamics in ultrathin metallic ferromagnets

    Seonghoon Woo;Kai Litzius;Benjamin Krüger;Mi-Young Im;Mi-Young Im

  • Observation of room temperature magnetic skyrmions and their current-driven dynamics in ultrathin Co films

    Seonghoon Woo;Kai Litzius;Benjamin Krüger;Mi-Young Im

  • Interface-induced phenomena in magnetism

    Frances Hellman;Axel Hoffmann;Yaroslav Tserkovnyak;Geoffrey S.D. Beach

  • Dynamics of field-driven domain-wall propagation in ferromagnetic nanowires.

    Geoffrey S. D. Beach;Corneliu Nistor;Carl Knutson;Maxim Tsoi

  • Magneto-ionic control of interfacial magnetism

    Uwe Bauer;Lide Yao;Aik Jun Tan;Parnika Agrawal

  • Fast current-driven domain walls and small skyrmions in a compensated ferrimagnet.

    Lucas Caretta;Maxwell Mann;Felix Büttner;Kohei Ueda

  • Magneto-ionic Control of Interfacial Magnetism

    Uwe Bauer;Lide Yao;Satoru Emori;Harry L. Tuller

  • Ferrimagnetic spintronics

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  • Determination of spin torque efficiencies in heterostructures with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy

    Chi-Feng Pai;Chi-Feng Pai;Maxwell Mann;Aik Jun Tan;Geoffrey S. D. Beach

  • Current-induced switching in a magnetic insulator

    Can Onur Avci;Andy Quindeau;Chi-Feng Pai;Chi-Feng Pai;Maxwell Mann

  • Theory of isolated magnetic skyrmions: From fundamentals to room temperature applications

    Felix Büttner;Ivan Lemesh;Geoffrey S D Beach

  • Current-induced domain wall motion

    G.S.D. Beach;M. Tsoi;J.L. Erskine

  • Field-free deterministic ultrafast creation of magnetic skyrmions by spin-orbit torques

    Felix Büttner;Ivan Lemesh;Michael Schneider;Bastian Pfau

  • Enhanced spin-orbit torques in Pt/Co/Ta heterostructures

    Seonghoon Woo;Maxwell S. Mann;Aik Jun Tan;Lucas Marcelo Caretta

  • Magneto-ionic control of magnetism using a solid-state proton pump.

    Aik Jun Tan;Mantao Huang;Can Onur Avci;Felix Büttner;Felix Büttner

  • Full phase diagram of isolated skyrmions in a ferromagnet

    Felix Büttner;Ivan Lemesh;Geoffrey S. D. Beach

  • Determination of spin torque efficiencies in heterostructures with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy

    Chi-Feng Pai;Aik Jun Tan;Maxwell S. Mann;Geoffrey Stephen Beach

  • Magnetostatic twists in room-temperature skyrmions explored by nitrogen-vacancy center spin texture reconstruction

    Y. Dovzhenko;F. Casola;S. Schlotter;S. Schlotter;T. X. Zhou

  • Voltage-controlled domain wall traps in ferromagnetic nanowires

    Uwe Bauer;Satoru Emori;Geoffrey S. D. Beach

  • Temperature dependence of spin-orbit torques across the magnetic compensation point in a ferrimagnetic TbCo alloy film

    Kohei Ueda;Maxwell Mann;Paul W. P. de Brouwer;David Bono

  • Current-driven dynamics of Dzyaloshinskii domain walls in the presence of in-plane fields: Full micromagnetic and one-dimensional analysis

    Eduardo Martinez;Satoru Emori;Noel Perez;Luis Torres

Frequent Co-Authors

Ami E. Berkowitz
Ami E. Berkowitz University of California, San Diego
Amir Yacoby
Amir Yacoby Harvard University
Ronald L. Walsworth
Ronald L. Walsworth University of Maryland, Baltimore
Di Xiao
Di Xiao Carnegie Mellon University
Peter Fischer
Peter Fischer Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Qian Niu
Qian Niu The University of Texas at Austin
Michael Schneider
Michael Schneider RWTH Aachen University
David J. Smith
David J. Smith Arizona State University

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