On Wednesday July 5th 2023, we have the pleasure to welcome in SPINTEC Mark Stiles from NIST. He will give us a seminar at 14:00, entitled : Can magnetic tunnel junctions help make cognitive computing more efficient? Place : IRIG/SPINTEC, auditorium 445 CEA Building 10.05 (access to CEA needs pass (*)) visio link (**) : […]

Albert Fert, Mairbek Chshiev, André Thiaville and Hongxin Yang, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 92, 081001 (2023).   In this Review article, the authors briefly introduce the research history of DMI and its significance in the field of modern spintronics. Since the early 1960’s, the discovery of Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction (DMI) helped to explain the physical mechanisms […]

A new type of magnetic sensor based on the spin transfer torque using 50-100nm diameter perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions was recently reported in the IEEE Sensors Journal. The paper demonstrates the magnetic field sensing principle, patented by Spintec in 2020, while also describing possible read-out methods and their associated signal conditioning electronics. Improvements over conventional […]

Book – The basics of electron transport in spintronics: textbook with lectures, exercises and solutions V. Baltz, EDP Sciences Here is the ideal book to grasp the basic concepts of spin-dependent electron transport and to develop a deep physical understanding of the subject. A careful selection of key notions provides a concise and effective framework. […]

On Monday June 26th, at 11:00, Laura Álvaro Gómez will defend her PhD thesis entitled : Current-induced motion of magnetic domain walls in cylindrical nanowires with chemical modulations Place : University of Madrid. This joint Phd defense between Université Grenoble Alpes (SPINTEC) and Universidad Complutense de Madrid (IMDEA) will be held in an hybrid mode […]

On Wednesday, June 14th 2023, we have the pleasure to welcome in SPINTEC Pr Chih Huang Lai from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. He will give us a seminar at 14:00, entitled : Spin orbit torque switching in ferromagnetic/antiferromagnetic systems Place : CEA Building 10.05 auditorium 445 (access to CEA needs pass (*)) visioconf link […]

Libor VOJACEK is the Best student award winner as well as among Best poster award winners at IEEE Magnetics Society Summer School 2023 that took place in Bari, Italy. The title of his poster is “Spin transport in CrXY Janus monolayers: multiscale computational study” with results predicting the existence of a deterministic switching regime that, […]

Théo FROTTIER is among Best Poster Award winners at INTERMAG 2023 Conference taking place in May 2023 in Sendai, Japan. The title of the poster prepared with Aurélie KANDAZOGLOU, Cécile GREZES of Topological Spintronics team is “Non-Volatile Electric-Field Control of Spin-Orbit Torques and Anomalous Hall Effect in Perpendicular Ferromagnet-SrTiO3 systems”. The presented results clearly show […]

Position: Skyrmions are circular magnetic domains of (sub-)micron size with increasing interest to the scientific community, considering to use them for information encoding. The aim of this thesis is to exploit the potential of skyrmions in a new way: developing a magnetic field sensor. Indeed, the response of skyrmions to the magnetic field perpendicular to […]

Spintec laboratory is opening a four years engineer researcher position in the framework of the PEPR electronics (part of France 2030 strategy) – project EMCOM (emerging memories for computing).   Context: The cost of transferring information between different layers of storage and computing units now dominates the energy performance of conventional processors. This has created […]