Description du projet
Réseau de formation sur l’orbitronique de spin
En physique quantique, l’interaction spin-orbite est une interaction relativiste du spin d’une particule avec son mouvement à l’intérieur d’un potentiel. Financé par le programme Actions Marie Skłodowska-Curie, le projet SPEAR est un réseau européen pluridisciplinaire qui rassemble sept universités, trois centres de recherche et sept PME et qui offrira aux chercheurs en début de carrière une formation dans le domaine de l’orbitronique de spin fondamentale et appliquée. SPEAR se concentrera principalement sur l’étude approfondie des couples spin-orbite, la conversion spin-charge, les matériaux magnétiques 2D, les nano-oscillateurs à effet Hall, le contrôle de la tension de l’anisotropie magnétique et les skyrmions. Les matériaux qui présentent un fort couplage spin-orbite ouvrent la voie aux mémoires magnétiques à accès aléatoire qui sont sur le point de remplacer la mémoire informatique traditionnelle basée sur des semi-conducteurs complémentaires à base d’oxyde de métal.
Objectif
Spin Orbitronics provides a challenging and innovative framework for training early-stage researchers (ESRs) with excellent prospects for a career in industry and academia. In this promising area, the SPEAR project proposes a multidisciplinary European network, composed of 7 universities, 3 research centres and 7 small and medium sized companies, which will provide state-of-the-art training for ESRs in the field of fundamental and applied Spin Orbitronics.
The overarching scientific and technological objective of our research programme is to study materials with strong spin-orbit coupling, novel phenomena in these materials, and to build devices based on these phenomena for the next generation of memories, such as magnetic random-access memory (MRAM), and beyond-CMOS technology, such as spin-orbit-based logic, machine learning or neuromorphic computing. SPEAR will train 15 ESRs through research in the physics of spin-orbit torques, spin-to-charge conversion, 2D magnetic materials, spin Hall nano-oscillators, voltage control of magnetic anisotropy, and skyrmions. The ESRs to be recruited will develop state-of-the-art technologies and materials, including device nanofabrication, high-resolution microscopies, and theoretical calculations. The results to be achieved by SPEAR are already identified to be of commercial interest for the emerging MRAM industry.
Interdisciplinary secondments will be organised, including for every researcher a secondment of 3 months to the industrial sector. SPEAR will organise 5 focus topic sessions on various sub-fields in Spin Orbitronics and open them to junior researchers outside the consortium. It will also organize 5 special training sessions on transferable skills, which is of primary importance for increasing the employability of the ESRs. SPEAR ultimate goal is to train a new generation of highly-skilled researchers able to address future memory technologies and nanoelectronics beyond CMOS.
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MSCA-ITN - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN)Coordinateur
20018 San Sebastian
Espagne