Our colleague Jean-Philippe Attané, Associate Professor at the University Grenoble Alpes, was appointed Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), beginning from October 1, 2021 for a period of five years. The IUF distinguishes every year a small number of university professors for their research excellence and international recognition, providing theses members additional […]

Our colleague Hélène Béa, associate professor at the University Grenoble Alpes, was appointed Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) beginning from October 1, 2021 for a period of five years. The IUF distinguishes every year a small number of university professors and associate professors for their research excellence and international recognition, providing […]

The goal of project CRYMCO is to optimize MRAM cell concepts for operation in cryogenic temperature environments. The project will explore applications for storage in conventional and quantum information processing. In the first case, MRAM with low energy dissipation for cryogenic environments could result in power savings by operating at low temperature, when the cost/power […]

Arne Brataasa, Bart van Wees, Olivier Klein, Grégoire de Loubens, Michel Viret, Physics Reports 885, 1-27 (2020) Spin insulatronics covers efforts to generate, detect, control, and utilize high-fidelity pure spin currents and excitations inside magnetic insulators. Here, the authors review recent developments to realize electric and thermal generation, manipulation, detection, and control of pure spin […]

SPINTEC is opening a Professorship position, with competition to take place during Spring 2021. The research scope is theory and numerical simulation, covering all aspects from fundamental to applied spintronics in the broadest sense. The research focus is the modeling of specific properties induced by spin-orbit effects, with the aim on the one hand to […]

A key component of artificial intelligence is neuromorphic computing, which represents the endeavor to replicate the human brain to perform efficiently very complex tasks such as pattern recognition. Until now, almost all practical implementations of deep neural-networks are emulated using nanostructured electronic components that try to replicate the brain’s volume architecture on a surface. However, […]

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 […]

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 […]