Scientific highlights illustrated by key publications
- Vibrating magnetic microparticles to stimulate insulin secretion (February 09th, 2023)
In the context of intensive research on treatments against diabetes – major health threat to millions of people, we report here on an innovative approach based on mechanobiology. Basically, chronic hyperglycemia is regulated by a ... - Waking-up wireless sensor nodes with perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions (December 19th, 2022)
Spin-torque-nanodiodes based on magnetic tunnel junctions are promising candidates for RF energy harvesters and ultra-low power wake-up receivers with performances that are expected to surpass those of semiconductor diodes. Experiments on magnetic tunnel junctions with ... - Spintronic Memristor based Binarized Ensemble Convolutional Neural Network (December 15th, 2022)
We have investigated the use of spintronic devices to enable the implementation of a Binary Ensemble Convolutional Neural Network. A simulation flow has been setup and allowed to evaluate this disruptive combination and very promising ... - Spin-transport in antiferromagnets from the GHz to THz regime (December 12th, 2022)
Control over spin transport in antiferromagnetic systems is essential for future spintronic applications with operational speeds extending to ultrafast time scales. A consortium of physicists at SPINTEC, JGU Berlin and Charles University Prague established the ... - Computing and storing data at the nanoscale using magnetic skyrmions (December 08th, 2022)
Magnetic skyrmions are appealing for use in logic and memory devices combining small size and fast motion. Here, we propose to exploit skyrmion interactions to perform both logic and memory operations at the nanoscale. ... - Bilinear magnetoresistance in HgTe topological insulator (December 05th, 2022)
Y. Fu, J. Li, J. Papin, P. Noël, S. Teresi, M. Cosset-Chéneau, C. Grezes, T. Guillet, C. Thomas, Y.-M. Niquet, P. Ballet, T. Meunier, J.-P. Attané, A. Fert, and L. Vila, Nano Lett. 22, 7867 ... - Électronique : un pas vers le contrôle des skyrmions (December 04th, 2022)
Article “Électronique : un pas vers le contrôle des skyrmions” dans une revue de vulgarisation scientifique Pour la science N° 542 paru le 16 novembre 2022. Article “Electronics: a step towards the control of skyrmions” in ... - Controlling skyrmion chirality with a gate voltage (December 01st, 2022)
Magnetic skyrmions are localized chiral spin textures, which offer great promise to store and process information at the nanoscale. The unique sense of rotation of their surrounding domain wall, called chirality, is resulting from the ... - Observation of skyrmions in synthetic antiferromagnetic and their nucleation using current and light (November 28th, 2022)
Skyrmions in synthetic antiferromagnets are appealing for use in future memory and computing devices, combining small size and fast motion, but creating, stabilizing, and observing them remains a challenge. Here, we demonstrate the stabilization and ... - Bright and Dark States of Two Distant Macrospins Strongly Coupled by Phonons (November 04th, 2022)
A new form of spintronic is emerging, exploiting electrical insulators. Recent spectroscopic studies performed at SPINTEC have revealed the coherent coupling that may establish between two distant macrospins separated by a non-magnetic dielectric spacer via ... - Perpendicular-shape-anisotropy MRAM do not fear temperature (September 01st, 2022)
Perpendicular-shape-anisotropy magnetic random-access memory (PSA MRAM) has been proposed to maintain the thermal stability of solid-state magnetic bits down to a few nanometers in diameter. Here we confirm directly with high-spatial resolution and high-sensitivity electron ... - Unveiling temperature dependence mechanisms of perpendicular magnetic anisotropy at Fe/MgO interfaces (August 30th, 2022)
A recent breakthrough in understanding the thermal effects on the magnetic properties of perpendicularly magnetized Fe/MgO interfaces is reported. It turns out that the macroscopic mechanisms play a decisive role in determining the thermal stability ... - Review – Two-dimensional materials prospects for non-volatile spintronic memories (August 17th, 2022)
H. Yang✉, S. O. Valenzuela✉, M. Chshiev, S. Couet, B. Dieny, B. Dlubak, A. Fert, K. Garello, M. Jamet, D.-E. Jeong, K. Lee, T. Lee, M.-B. Martin, G. S. Kar, P. Sénéor, H.-J. Shin, S. ... - Review – Spin-orbit torque switching of magnetic tunnel junctions for memory applications (August 03rd, 2022)
Viola Krizakova, Manu Perumkunnil, Sebastien Couet, Pietro Gambardella, Kevin Garello, J. Magn. Magn. Mater. (2022). In this Review, the phenomenon of spin-orbit torques (SOT) is reviewed, from the fundamentals to prospects for applications. Spin-orbit torques (SOT) provide ... - Review – The Magnetic Genome of Two-Dimensional van der Waals Materials (June 13th, 2022)
Q. H. Wang✉, A. Bedoya-Pinto, M. Blei, A. H. Dismukes, A. Hamo, S. Jenkins, M. Koperski, Y. Liu, Q.-Ch. Sun, E. J. Telford, H. H. Kim, M. Augustin, U. Vool, J.-X. Yin, L. H. Li, ...