Project description
Graphene could enable high-speed, low-power spintronics circuits
Two-dimensional (2D) quantum crystals provide new impetus for further exploring the development of faster and more energy-efficient spintronics devices. Atomically thin 2D quantum materials just like graphene have created unique possibilities for performing calculations using the intrinsic magnetic moment of electrons, called spin. Leveraging researchers’ expertise in flexible graphene spin circuits and precise characterisation of 2D magnetic crystals, the EU-funded SPINNER project aims to develop spin-based integrated circuits with lower-power spin functions and higher speed processing capabilities. The proposed new experiments will build upon researchers’ expertise in state-of-the-art spin and charge transport, µHall magnetometry, advanced nanofabrication methods and device engineering.
Objective
Can spin integrated circuits (Spin-ICs) with low power-high speed processing capabilities be realized? What are the key ingredients necessary to catapult present-day spintronics to make such a leap? The emergence of two-dimensional (2D) quantum crystals provides new impetus for exploring ambitious ultralow-power and ultrafast speed prospects of spintronics and nanomagnetism. Atomically thin 2D quantum materials like graphene have created novel possibilities for pure spin current communication, functionalities, and controlling spin phenomena, for inventing entirely new kind of spin components, that could pave the way for spin ICs. SPINNER aims to unleash these prospects leveraging the PI’s pioneering leadership and recent innovations in flexible graphene spin circuits, breakthrough longest spin communication in graphene, and precision characterization of 2D magnetic crystals, aiming for three highly ambitious objectives: (1) Achieving strain control of spin currents and spin Hamiltonian in 2D materials. (2) Enabling field-free pure spin current torque functionalities in graphene spin circuits. (3) Controlling ultrafast spin currents at 2D spinterfaces. The proposed new experiments in SPINNER build upon the PI’s expertise in state-of-the-art spin and charge transport, µ-Hall magnetometry, advanced nanofabrication, and device engineering, augmented with new strengths in magneto-optic Kerr effect and ultrafast spin dynamics experiments. Designed for unprecedented engineering of spin materials and devices, the success of SPINNER will reveal new performance, low-power spin functions, determining the ultimate efficiency and speed of pure spin-current operations for Spin-ICs, leading to multiple new scientific and technological breakthroughs. Realizing SPINNER will make a significant impact on 2D quantum materials, flexible nanoelectronics, nanomagnetism and spintronics, and device physics, proving its high multidisciplinary worth.
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- engineering and technology materials engineering crystals
- engineering and technology nanotechnology nano-materials two-dimensional nanostructures graphene
- natural sciences physical sciences electromagnetism and electronics spintronics
- engineering and technology nanotechnology nanoelectronics
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H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)
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751 05 Uppsala
Sweden
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