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Yousra Nahas

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Research Assistant Professor

Also affiliated: University of Nebraska–Lincoln (2019); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (2010–2014); Universidad de Cantabria (2023); University of Liège (2017); Harbin Institute of Technology (2023); École Centrale Paris (2013–2014); Southern University of Science and Technology (2019); UNSW Sydney (2019); Sorbonne Université (2010); Laboratoire de Physique et d’Étude des Matériaux (2010); Smart Material (Germany) (2025); Laboratoire de Mécanique, Modélisation & Procédés Propres (2013–2014); Laboratoire Structures, Propriétés et Modélisation des Solides (2013–2014); Ferro (United States) (2025); ESPCI Paris (2010)

Faculty Researcher

25 h-index 94 pubs 2,664 cited

  • Electricity
  • Bismuth
  • Technology
  • Temperature
  • Phase Transition
  • Static Electricity
  • Ferric Compounds
  • Microscopy, Atomic Force

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Yousra Nahas's research focuses on the study of ferroelectric materials, particularly their topological phases and nanostructures. Her work investigates the creation and control of complex polar structures, such as skyrmions, solitons, and bubble domains, within ultrathin films and epitaxial superlattices. She has published research on switchable skyrmion-like polar nanodomains integrated on silicon, topological phases in polar oxide nanostructures, and hexagonal close-packed polar-skyrmion lattices in ultrathin ferroelectric PbTiO3 films.

Her investigations also extend to ferroelectric phase transitions, including frustration near tricritical composition points, and the manipulation of spherical ferroelectric solitons and freestanding ferroelectric bubble domains. Recent work explores the dynamical control of topology in polar skyrmions via twisted light. Nahas collaborates with researchers such as Sergei Prokhorenko and Laurent Bellaiche at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, with whom she has published numerous papers. Her scholarship metrics include an h-index of 25, 90 total publications, and 2,589 total citations.

Metrics

  • h-index: 25
  • Publications: 94
  • Citations: 2,664

Selected Publications

  • Hidden liquid-crystalline order in a non-collinear antiferromagnet (2026)
    Research Square DOI OpenAlex
  • Simulations of light-matter interaction in ferroelectrics and related materials (2026)
    Optical Materials Express DOI OpenAlex
  • Author Correction: Magnon confinement in epitaxial antiferromagnetic oxide heterostructures (2026)
    Nature Materials DOI OpenAlex
  • Magnon confinement in epitaxial antiferromagnetic oxide heterostructures (2026)
    Nature Materials 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Magnetic topological textures in <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>BiFeO</mml:mi> <mml:mn>3</mml:mn> </mml:msub> </mml:math> with ferroelectric domain walls (2025)
    Physical Review Materials DOI OpenAlex
  • Poincaré sphere engineering of dynamical ferroelectric topological solitons (2025)
    Physical review. B./Physical review. B 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Deterministic Generation of a Single-Byte Electric Skyrmion Bubble (2025)
    Physical Review Letters 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Morphogenesis of spin cycloids in a noncollinear antiferromagnet (2025)
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Formation mechanism of quasiordered superstructures of electric bubbles (2025)
    Physical review. B./Physical review. B 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Quasihexagonal arrays of electric-skyrmion bubbles in thin-film ferroelectrics: Pattern formation and structure (2024)
    Physical review. B./Physical review. B 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Electric-field-induced controlled motion of polar meron in epitaxially strained <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msub> <mml:mi mathvariant="normal">BiFeO</mml:mi> <mml:mn>3</mml:mn> </mml:msub> </mml:math> thin film (2024)
    Physical Review Materials 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Dynamics of Polar Vortex Crystallization (2024)
    Physical Review Letters 11 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Real-Time Point of Interest Segmentation for Electron Microscopy Images via Machine Learning (2024)
    Microscopy and Microanalysis DOI OpenAlex
  • Effective gyration of polar vortex arrays controlled by high orbital angular momentum of light (2024)
    Physical review. B./Physical review. B 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Motion and teleportation of polar bubbles in low-dimensional ferroelectrics (2024)
    Nature Communications 28 citations DOI OpenAlex

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