Overview
Antiferromagnetic materials could represent the future of spintronics thanks to the interesting features they combine: they are robust against perturbation due to magnetic fields, produce no stray fields, display ultrafast dynamics and generate large magneto-transport effects. In this team, research efforts are being invested in unraveling spin-dependent transport specifities of antiferromagnets. For a review of the team latest achievements, please follow this talk.
Research topics
Spin and charge transport
Whether spin and charge currents can be injected, transmitted and converted in antiferromagnetic materials, how subsequent variations can be detected, and what is the actual influence of the magnetic order vs. defects are some of the thrilling challenges being addressed, whether it be magnons, single electrons or Cooper pairs.
Nanomagnetism
To what extent and how the magnetic properties of antiferromagnetic materials shall and can be adjusted for use as functional materials in spintronic applications are some of the questions addressed in this activity, whether it be interfacial spin structures or spin textures like skyrmions.
Sub-THz dynamics
How sub-THz dynamics of antiferromagnets can promote spin pumping, and with what efficiency with respect to the damping parameter and to the transfer of angular momentum from the antiferromagnet are some of the exciting challenges addressed in this activity.
The team
Former members
Post-docs
- Olga Gladii, 2017-2019, now Post-Doctoral research fellow at HZDR – Germany
- Guillaume Forestier, 2016-2018, now R&D Engineer at ST-Microelectronics – France
PhD
- Rafael Lopes Seeger, 2018-2021
- Lamprini Frangou, 2014-2017, now Research Associate at King’s college London – UK
- Pablo Merodio also theory group, 2011-2014, now Assistant Professor at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid – Spain
- Kamil Akmaldinov, 2011-2015, now R&D Engineer at Crivasense technologies – France
Internships
- Laxman Nagi Reddy, 2020
- Rafael Lopes Seeger, 2018
- Jolan Barbançon, 2016
- Lamprini Frangou, 2014
- Nicolas Mante, 2011
- Safeer Chenattukuzhniyil aka. C. K. Safeer, 2011
- Marthe Chamfrault, 2010
Projects
- MATHEEIAS, ANR-DFG PRCI, 2020-2023
- ASK, PHC France-UK, 2021-2022
- ELSA, CEA exploratoire bottom-up, 2018-2019
- CRG KAUST / SPINTEC / UTEXAS, 2016-2019
- ASTRONICS, ANR JCJC, 2015-2018
- CROCUS Technology, 2012-2015
Partners
- Laboratoire IRIG/SYMMES/RICC, S. Gambarelli, Grenoble, France
- Unité mixte CNRS/Thales, R. Lebrun, Paris, France
- Laboratoire national des champs magnétiques intenses LNCMI, Anne-Laure Barra, Grenoble, France
- Laboratoire IRAMIS/SPEC/LNMO, M. Viret, J. B. Moussy, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- Laboratoire Charles Coulomb L2C, V. Jacques, Montpellier, France
- Centre interdisciplinaire de nanoscience de Marseille CINAM, L. Michez, A. Manchon, France
- TU Dresde / Uni. Constance, S. Goennenwein, H. Reichlova, Germany
- Johannes Gutenberg University JGU, L. Smejkal, J. Sinova, H. Gomonay, Mayence, Germany
- Fritz Haber Institute FHI, T. Kampfrath, Berlin, Germany
- The University of York, R. L. Evans, S. Jenkins, UK
- Catalan Institution for Research ICREA, J. Sort, Barcelona, Spain
- Laboratoire de physique des solides LPS, A. Mougin, Orsay, France
- Laboratoire d’optique et de magnétisme de Bretagne OPTIMAG, D. Spenato, Brest, France
- King Abdullah University of science and technology KAUST, A. Manchon, Thuwal, Saoudi Arabia
- Groupe de physique des matériaux GPM, L. Lechevallier and D. Ledue, Rouen, France
- CROCUS Technology, Grenoble, France
Recent news
- PhD Defense – Molecular beam epitaxy of van der Waals heterostructures based on ferromagnetic Cr2Te3 for spintronics (September 20th, 2023)
On Monday November 06th, at 14:00, Quentin Guillet (SPINTEC) will defend his PhD thesis entitled : Molecular beam epitaxy of van der Waals heterostructures based on ferromagnetic Cr2Te3 for spintronics Place : IRIG/SPINTEC, CEA Building 10.05, auditorium ... - Post-doctoral position – Superconductor / antiferro- and alter-magnet hybrids – experimental (M/W) (September 19th, 2023)
Subject and context : The aim of the project is to identify novel mechanisms to fully exploit specificities of d-wave superconductivity for ultrafast dynamic coupling with magnetism. The expected result is to open up prospects ... - seminar – seminars on Antiferro- and Alter-magnetic spintronics (August 10th, 2023)
On Tuesday, September 12th, from 09:00 to 12h00, we will have the pleasure of hosting a series of seminars in SPINTEC on Antiferro- and Alter-magnetic spintronics. The seminars will be given by Aurélien Manchon (CINaM), ... - PhD Defense – Study of unconventional compensated spin structures and textures towards unmatched spintronics properties (July 14th, 2023)
On Monday September 11th, at 14:00, Mme.Miina LEIVISKÄ will defend her PhD thesis entitled : Study of unconventional compensated spin structures and textures towards unmatched spintronics properties Place : CEA Bat. 10.05 Room 445 Skype : https://webconf.cea.fr/vincent.baltz/MYYV417Y If link ... - Book – The basics of electron transport in spintronics: textbook with lectures, exercises and solutions (May 26th, 2023)
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 ...
