Descrizione del progetto
Rete di formazione sulla spin-orbitronica
Nella fisica quantistica, l’interazione spin-orbita è un’interazione relativistica dello spin di una particella con il suo movimento all’interno di un potenziale. Finanziato dal programma di azioni Marie Skłodowska-Curie, il progetto SPEAR è una rete europea multidisciplinare che riunisce sette università, tre centri di ricerca e sette piccole e medie imprese che offriranno ai ricercatori in fase iniziale di carriera una formazione nel campo della spin-orbitronica fondamentale e applicata. SPEAR si concentrerà principalmente su ulteriori indagini sulle coppie spin-orbita, sulla conversione da spin a carica, sui materiali magnetici 2D, sui nano oscillatori di spin Hall, sul controllo della tensione dell’anisotropia magnetica e sugli skyrmioni. I materiali che mostrano un forte accoppiamento spin-orbita aprono la strada a memorie magnetiche ad accesso casuale che sono destinate a sostituire la tradizionale memoria del computer basata su semiconduttori di ossido di metallo complementari.
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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)Coordinatore
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