School of Physics & Astronomy

Dr Colin Kirkbride

  • E.P.S.R.C Doctoral Prize Research Fellow (Physics & Astronomy)

Biography

Dr Colin Kirkbride is a researcher in magnetic materials primarily utilising multimodal Lorentz techniques in transmission electron microscopy. He is currently an EPSRC Doctoral Prize Research Fellow investigating the tuning of ultrathin magnetic films using organic-based capping materials. These systems pose an exciting avenue for the realisation of advanced spintronics and data storage devices through the generation of chiral spin textures such as skyrmions. He has experience working with UK and international industrial and acadmeic collaborations and has a keen interest in understanding fundamental aspects of magnetism alongside their applications to strategic industrially relevent technologies.

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Articles

Fallon, K. et al. (2026) Unconventional skyrmions in synthetic antiferromagnets. Nature Materials, (doi: 10.1038/s41563-026-02673-9) (PMID:42443453) (Early Online Publication)

Barker, C. E. A. et al. (2024) Phase coexistence and transitions between antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic states in a synthetic antiferromagnet. Physical Review B, 109, 134437. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.109.134437)

Conference or Workshop Item

Kirkbride, Colin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-5688-093X, Aboljadayel, Razan, Fallon, Kayla, Villa, Sara, Almeida, Trevor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4683-6279, Marrows, Christopher and McVitie, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4511-6413 (2024) Characterisation of Skyrmion Spin Textures in CoB/CoFeB Multilayers. 17th European Microscopy Congress 2024, Copenhagen, Denmark, 25-30 August 2024. p. 29009. (doi: 10.1051/bioconf/202412929009)

Villa, Sara, Barker, Christopher, Fallon, Kayla, Kirkbride, Colin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-5688-093X, Almeida, Trevor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4683-6279, Marrows, Christopher and McVitie, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4511-6413 (2024) L-TEM characterization of controlled skyrmion nucleation in synthetic antiferromagnetic multilayers. European Microscopy Congress 2024, Copenhagen, Denmark, 25-30 August 2024. p. 29016. (doi: 10.1051/bioconf/202412929016)

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