Scientific highlights illustrated by key publications
- Low-Noise Nanoscale Vortex Sensor for Out-of-Plane Magnetic Field Detection (July 30th, 2026)
Magnetic field sensors are widely used for contactless current measurement, as well as in the automotive and robotics industries for position encoding. Vortex sensors are particularly attractive for these applications because of their linear response ... - Spin waves in cylindrical magnetic conduits: from theory to experiment (July 27th, 2026)
Spin waves are propagating fundamental excitations of magnetic systems, also carrying promises for low-power logic and data transfer. We report the measurement of thermal spin-wave spectra in single cylindrical nanowires, and their quantitative analysis as ... - E pur si muove!* (July 23rd, 2026)
Angular momentum (AM) is the conserved quantity associated with rotational invariance. Harnessing its orbital component in axi-symmetric sample is often challenging. Interestingly, we show that azimuthal spin waves in normally magnetized disks are largely immune ... - Magnetic vortex micro-disks dynamics in viscoelastic environments (July 15th, 2026)
Magnetically driven microparticles provide a versatile platform for probing and manipulating biological systems. Yet the physical framework governing their actuation in complex environments remains only partially explored. In this work, we introduced a simplified model ... - Pulse Shaping Suppresses Intrinsic Back-Switching in SOT-MRAM (July 05th, 2026)
Spin–orbit-torque (SOT) MRAM writing exhibits an unusual current dependence: at high current amplitudes, the write probability can drop to zero or even oscillate as the current increases. In collaboration with Antaios, we showed that this ... - A one-way sound transmitter (December 08th, 2025)
Magnetism is well-known to inherently break time-reversal symmetry; for example, the magnetization precesses in a single (counter-clockwise) direction around its equilibrium axis. By integrating a magnetic thin film onto a piezoelectric substrate, enabling phonons to ... - Physics of current-induced switching in 3D nanopillars (November 03rd, 2025)
We simulated the current-induced switching of magnetization of short vertical magnetic nanopillars as the free layer in a magnetic tunnel junction. Considering spin accumulation is crucial in such 3D elements, leading to an enhancement of ... - Controlling effective anisotropy for efficient switching at cryogenic temperature (October 24th, 2025)
The field of cryoelectronics holds promise for high-performance computing applications, particularly within the realm of quantum computing. Recent advances in quantum computing systems have spurred the investigation of various technologies suitable for cryogenic environments. Among ... - Imprinting of skyrmions and bimerons in an antiferromagnet (October 06th, 2025)
In this work, a consortium of physicists from SPINTEC and York addressed the challenge of nucleating quantitatively proven topological magnetic textures in compensated magnets with zero net magnetization. It paves the way for extending the ... - Monolayer control of spin-charge conversion in van der Waals Heterostructures (September 16th, 2025)
2D materials and van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures are promising candidates to build efficient THz spintronic emitters. Here, we demonstrate the drastic modification of THz spintronic emission by inserting a single layer of MoSe2 in ... - Magnetic vortex dynamics probed by time-resolved magnetic helicoidal dichroism (September 12th, 2025)
Time-resolved magnetic helicoidal dichroism (MHD) was successfully used to assess the ultra-fast dynamics of magnetization. This first attempt to use an MHD-based technique was demonstrated on a magnetic vortex structure hosted by a permalloy pacman ... - Nanosecond stochastic operation in perpendicular superparamagnetic tunnel junctions (September 08th, 2025)
Superparamagnetic tunnel junctions have emerged as promising stochastic neurons for low-energy cognitive computing. We report, for the first time, nanosecond-scale mean waiting times between magnetization reversals in perpendicularly magnetized tunnel junctions, enabled by a strong ... - Modulating TeraHertz emission using 2D materials and ferroelectricity (September 08th, 2025)
The modulation of THz spintronic emitters represents a real challenge nowadays. Here, we consider a THz emitter made of 2D materials grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) on large area and transferred on LiNbO3. The ... - Topological analysis and experimental control of DW transformations in cylindrical wires (July 01st, 2025)
Topology is a powerful tool for categorizing magnetization textures by defining a topological index in both two-dimensional (2D) systems, such as thin films or curved surfaces, and in 3D bulk systems. In the emerging field ... - Large Chiral Orbital Texture and Orbital Edelstein Effect in Co/Al Heterostructure (December 20th, 2024)
The emergence of a large helical orbital texture due to the formation of the surface states at the metallic Co/Al interfaces originating from the orbital Edelstein effect and giving rise to a nonequilibrium orbital accumulation ...
