Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales

Congratulations to Nicolas Reyren who is one ofthe 153 Outstanding Referees of the Physical Review journals, as chosen by the journal editors for 2023. (...)

Agnès Barthélémy is elected to the French Academy of Sciences.
Congratulations to her

Danijela Markovic is the winner of an ERC Starting grant. Her project is about quantum neural networks.
Congratulations to her.
https://www.inp.cnrs.fr/fr/personne/danijela-markovic

The PEPR-SPIN is selected and will be financed (38 M€) through the PEPR (Priority Research Programs and Equipment). The PEPR-SPIN (SPINtronic innovations for frugal, agile and sustainable digital (...)

Prof. Agnès Barthélémy and Dr. Manuel Bibes (CNRS/Thales laboratory of University Paris-Saclay), Prof. Ramamoorthy Ramesh (UC Berkeley) and Prof. Nicola Spaldin (ETH Zurich) are the winners of EPS (...)

Julie Grollier is the laureate of the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize 2021 in the category Woman Scientist of the Year.
Congratulations!
https://www.academie-sciences.fr/fr/Laureats/laureates-2021-prix-ire

Congratulations to Laëtitia Baringthon for the France 2021 l’Oréal-UNESCO young talent award

The anomalous Hall effect (AHE) is an intriguing transport phenomenon occurring typically in ferromagnets as a consequence of broken time reversal symmetry and spin-orbit interaction. Here we (...)

Spintronics utilizes the electronic spin for information processing and microelectronics. Currently, spintronic devices are mostly based on ferromagnetic device architectures. In view of (...)

Agnès Barthèlémy is laureate with Nicola Spaldin of the 2021 IUPAP Magnetism Award and Néel medal, a prize awarded every three years for researches in the domain of magnetism. (...)

The usual magnetic materials in spintronics, as Fe or Co, possess a small Spin-Orbit-Coupling (SOC). To circumvent this short-coming, the common practice has been to utilize the large SOC of an (...)

Steffen WITTROCK is the laureate of the PhOM 2020 thesis prize for his thesis entitled "From noise & stability to synchronization & complex dynamics in spin torque nanooscillators". His (...)

Congratulations to William Legrand Winner of the SFP’s 2019 Saint-Gobain Young Researchers’ Prize. William received his PhD from the University of Paris-Saclay in 2019. His thesis is entitled: (...)

MMM 2020 Best Poster Award attributed to Fenando Ajejas for his work on "Experimental correlation of Interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction amplitude and Work Function in magnetic (...)

SpintronicFactory european consortium has published in Nature Electronics [1] a new roadmap for spintronics
Preprint: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.10584

The term tunnel electroresistance (TER) denotes a fast, non-volatile, reversible resistance switching triggered by voltage pulses in ferroelectric tunnel junctions. It is explained by subtle (...)

Ferroelectric materials are made of domains in which electric dipoles are all aligned in the same direction. The manipulation of these domains by an electric field ensures low energy consumption (...)

William Legrand is the laureate of the SFNano - C’Nano 2019 thesis prize in the "Fundamental research" category. He will receive his prize on December 11 in Dijon during the 1st edition of the (...)

Lorenzo Vistoli, PhD student, won the "Invention/innovation award" at the Italian embassy during the "Journée de la recherche italienne", in honor of the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s (...)

Intel Corporation has recently proposed a new type of non-volatile logic device operating on spin that should provide improvements in terms of energy efficiency and performance beyond current (...)

In this article, we demonstrated large topological Hall effect in lightly doped (Ca,Ce)MnO3 thin films. Magnetic force microscopy experiments revealed the presence of magnetic bubbles whose (...)

Physicists have succeeded in fabricating a network of four coupled nano-oscillators capable of recognizing spoken vowels by tuning their frequencies according to an automatic rule of real-time (...)

Rare-earth titanates are Mott insulators, and emerge as promising building blocks to realize exotic electronic states at oxide interfaces. For small rare-earths such as Dy, these titanates are (...)

In neuroscience, population coding theory demonstrates that neural assemblies can achieve fault-tolerant information processing. Mapped to nanoelectronics, this strategy could allow for reliable (...)

Julie Grollier, CNRS Senior scientist, has received the 2018 CNRS silver medal.

Davide Maccariello, William Legrand, Nicolas Reyren, Karin Garcia, Karim Bouzehouane, Sophie Collin, Vincent Cros & Albert Fert "Electrical detection of single magnetic skyrmions in metallic (...)

J.Y. Chauleau, W. Legrand, N. Reyren, D. Maccariello, S. Collin, H. Popescu, K. Bouzehouane, V. Cros, N. Jaouen, A. Fert “Circular dichroism in magnetic resonant scattering as a probe of the (...)

The Dutch chemist Daniël Vanmaekelbergh and the French physicist Manuel Bibes have received the Descartes-Huygens Prize 2017. The two nanoscientists have been awarded the prize for their (...)

As the old adage goes, “Seeing is believing!” This is particularly acute for antiferromagnets that despite their interest for low-power, ultrafast spintronics applications remain practically (...)

Nowadays artificial intelligence algorithms have become very efficient for speech or image recognition. But running these programs on conventional computer architectures uses ten thousands time (...)

The concept of spin-torque-driven high-frequency magnetization dynamics, allows the potential construction of complex networks of non-linear dynamical nanoscale systems, combining the field of (...)

The workshop aims to gather researchers from different disciplines (magnetism, spintronics, surface science, neutron scattering, synchrotron techniques, etc.) for stimulating fruitful (...)

Artificial neural networks show enhanced performance for key applications such as data mining or pattern recognition, but need to be implemented in hardware to make these applications accessible (...)

Albert Fert and Nicolas Reyren are coauthors of a review article in the November 24, 2016 issue of Nature describing emergent phenomena (magnetic skyrmions, structures based on topological (...)

Marie-Blandine Martin has received the PhD prize Thales for her PhD work on "Spintronics with graphene", under supervision of Pierre Seneor.

In collaboration with Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics and Ecole Centrale Paris, researchers from the lab showed that organic materials can be used for tunnel barriers in memory devices as (...)

Mathieu Grisolia, PhD student at the CNRS/Thales lab, has received the 2016 Gold Medal of the Materials Research Society (MRS) for his work as a graduate student at the "2016 MRS Spring meeting" (...)

We have shown that La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 ferromagnetic surface can be functionalized by alkylphosphonic acid molecules. We have then use of these functionalized surfaces in spintronics devices such as (...)

In oxide materials, atomic bonds are usually ionic, which means that electrons sit either on the metal ions or on the oxygens. However, in some compounds such as nickel or copper perovskites (...)

In this article we demonstrate that we succeed to stabilize magnetic skyrmions of a few tens of nanometers of diameter at room temperature and very low magnetic field. To achieve this purpose, we (...)

Clément Barraud et al. provide direct evidence of a hybrid interface spin polarization reversal due to the differing hybridization between phthalocyanine molecules and each cobalt electrode in (...)

Constance Moreau-Luchaire, PhD student, has received a 2014 MMM Best Poster Award at the "Magnetism and Magnetic Materials" conference for her contribution "Bubbles and skyrmions in Pt/Co/Pt and (...)

We report on the successful integration of low-cost, conformal, and versatile atomic layer deposited (ALD) dielectric in Ni-Al2O3-Co magnetic tunnel junctions where the Ni is coated with a (...)

Using a masked ion irradiation technique that allows us to nanopattern the electronic properties of oxides, we experimentally realize a system in which the geometry of the potential-energy (...)

In epitaxial heterostructures of metal oxides, charge reconstruction at interfaces may produce electronic states different from those of the bulk constituents. A prototypical example of such (...)

The workshop aims to gather researchers from different disciplines (magnetism, spintronics, surface science, neutron scattering, synchrotron techniques, ...) for stimulating fruitful discussions (...)

In collaboration with teams from Université Paris-Sud, Ecole Centrale Paris, the University of Newcastle and the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin, researchers from UMPhi have shown that a transition from (...)

The Rashba effect is an interaction between the spin and the momentum of electrons induced by the spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in surface or interface states. Its potential for conversion between (...)