Professor Tomasz Dietl appointed for the ERC Scientific Council
The European Commission has appointed Professor Tomasz Dietl to the ERC Scientific Council in January 2011 together with six other new members. Professor Dietl has been involved in the SPINTRA CRP and his research is in the field of ferromagnetic semiconductors and nanostructures.
Further information can be found here
Dependence of Domain-Wall Depinning Threshold Current on Pinning Profile (28 April 2009)
Researchers at the University of Leeds UK and at IBM from the FoNE SPINCURRENT CRP have investigated the threshold current density required for depinning a domain wall from constrictions in NiFe nanowires.
An highlight of this research has appeared on ScienceDaily (25 April 2009).
The results of this research have been published in S. Lepadatu, A. Vanhaverbeke, D. Atkinson, R. Allenspach, C. H. Marrows, PRL, 102, 127203, 2009
Study of origin and control of ferromagnetism in magnetically doped semiconductor: (Ga,Fe)N(20 February 2009)
Cooperation between groups of the Johannes Kepler University (Linz, Austria) and Institute of Physics, PAS, (Warsaw, Poland) belonging to the SPINTRA project have led to the discovery that the aggregation of Fe ions in (Ga,Fe)N and consequently the magnetic response of the material are affected by the growth rate and doping with shallow impurities.
The results of this research have been published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 135502 (2008) and Phys.Rev. lett. 100, 037204 (2008).
Fundamental studies of carbon-based nanostructures for spintronics at Poznań (20 February 2009)
Researchers from Poznan within the SPINTRA project have studied spin-polarized transport through carbon nanotubes and graphene.
Read more here about these results in Phys. Rev. B 78, 035422 (2008)]
Spintronic Nano-devices from Warsaw.
Researchers at the Institute of Physics Polish Academy of Sciences at Warsaw have fabricated a series of 1D hybrid nanostructures containing MBE-grown modulation-doped PbTe quantum wells embedded by Pb$_{0.92}$Eu$_{0.08}$Te:Bi barriers and indium as a superconductor injecto
Spintronics is on the agenda at Leeds. Dr. Chris Marrows talks about recent results achieved in SPINCURRENT consortium.
Can Nuclear Qubits Point the Way? Researchers at Oxford tell us about their results within the IMPRESS Project.
In search of the Holy Gra...phene! Researchers meet at Windsor to discuss the properties of this still 'unknown' material.
