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Spintronics, or spin electronics, revolutionized the field of magnetic data storage in the 1990’s thanks to the manipulation of spin properties of devices instead of, or in addition to, charge degree of freedom. Spintronics was triggered by the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance and led to a new generation of hard disks for data storage, of […] >>

Spin momentum transfer allows exploring and studying the non-linear magnetization oscillations in nano-sized magnetic structures and opens potential for novel applications as integrated microwave components. A defining feature of spintronic oscillators is their non-linear dependence of the precession frequency on the amplitude (non-isochronicity) that provides for additional rf functionalities and that modifies the response to […] >>

Wireless sensor networks and smart sensors are at the core of the Internet of Things, requiring low cost, compact and low power electronic components. The most power consuming parts are the wireless communication transmitter and receiver modules, which remain active more or less permanently, while actual communication takes place only during a limited amount of […] >>

The Spintec laboratory supports the R&D of Crocus-Technology, a company that develops magnetic field sensors. Optimizing the performance of these sensors, based on magnetic tunnel junctions, requires research on materials, micromagnetic configurations and junction transport properties, including magnetic and electrical noise. The purpose of the internship is to find ways to improve the sensors through […] >>

New biocompatible magneto-elastic membranes have recently been developed at SPINTEC, based on the integration of magnetic microparticles previously investigated in biological studies [1]. Our earlier studies aimed at cancer cells destruction, through the low frequency magneto-mechanical vibrations of the particles dispersed among the cells [2). Here, on the contrary, magnetic particles are patterned in an […] >>