SPINTEC wishes you all a healthy and prosperous year 2021 (December 22nd, 2020)
The year 2020 has been very special and a challenge to all, imposed by the pandemic. All members of the lab did their best to keep projects running, maintaining means to perform experiments and simulations, to turn their university lecturing remote and keep welcoming master students in the lab, and most importantly, to sustain social […]
Read moreLab picture 2020 (December 22nd, 2020)
SPEAR – An H2020 ITN project (December 20th, 2020)
Spintec is part of a European-funded ITN project called SPEAR: Spin-orbit materials, emergent phenomena and related technology training. The project, coordinated by CIC nanoGUNE, seeks to explore new materials for the next generation of computer memories and processors. six European academic institutions (CEA-France, ETH Zürich-Switzerland, IMEC-Belgium, U. Hamburg-Germany, Martin Luther University Halle–Germany, CIC Nanogune) and […]
Read moreHighlights of SPINTEC research in 2020 (December 10th, 2020)
The research highlights of SPINTEC over the year 2020 have been put together, and are available to download: https://www.spintec.fr/spintec-annual-booklets. This booklet contains the key facts of the lab over the period (contracts, new staff etc.), the most up-to-date description of the lab activity and the research teams. We wish you a nice reading!
Read moreMasters thesis projects for Spring 2021 (September 15th, 2020)
You find here the list of proposals for Master-2 internships to take place at Spintec during Spring 2021. In most cases, these internships are intended to be suitable for a longer-term PhD work. Interested Master-1 students are also encouraged to apply, as well as students not phased for a Spring internship. You may download the […]
Read moreReview — Opportunities and challenges for spintronics in the microelectronics industry (August 19th, 2020)
The European consortium SpintronicFactory, largely supported by the French laboratories Spintec (Grenoble) and the CNRS-Thales Joint Lab (Palaiseau), publishes in the journal Nature Electronics an ambitious roadmap for spintronics. This discipline on the borderline between magnetism and microelectronics is indeed reaching maturity, offering broad prospects for innovation. B. Dieny, I. L. Prejbeanu, K. Garello, P. […]
Read moreOur colleague Mairbek Chshiev, professor at the University Grenoble Alpes, was appointed Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) beginning from October 1, 2020 for a period of five years. The IUF distinguishes each year a small number of university professors for their research excellence and international recognition, providing theses members additional support […]
Read moreReview — Cancer treatment by magneto-mechanical effect of particles (June 30th, 2020)
Cécile Naud, Caroline Thébault, Marie Carrière, Yanxia Hou, Robert Morel, François Berger, Bernard Dieny, Hélène Joisten, Nanoscale Advances, RSC (2020). Cancer treatment by magneto-mechanical effect of particles (TMMEP) is a growing field of research. The principle of this technique is to apply a mechanical force on cancer cells in order to destroy them thanks to […]
Read moreRecruiting a Research Scientist on spintronic neuromorphic computing (June 11th, 2020)
Spintec Positioned at the crossroad of science and technology, SPINTEC (SPINtronique et TEchnologie des Composants, https://www.spintec.fr) is one of the leading spintronics research laboratories worldwide. SPINTEC was created in 2002 and rapidly expanded to currently reach 100 peoples, of which 43 permanent staff from CEA, CNRS and Grenoble-Alpes University. The lab aims at bridging the […]
Read morePaul NOËL receives a PhD award from University Grenoble Alpes (June 03rd, 2020)
Paul Noël has been awarded one out of the 9 awards of the University Grenoble Alpes, for PhDs defended in 2019. Paul Noël conducted his PhD work at SPINTEC, under the co-supervision of Jean-Philippe Attané and Laurent Vila, in the Spinorbitronics team. Part of the work has been conducted in collaboration with UMPhy CNRS/Thales. The […]
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