It was a great pleasure to host Prof. Dr. Vitalii Dugaev from Rzeszów University of Technology. In his talk he discussed the contribution of edge scattering to the conductance of grapheme nanoribbons and nanoflakes using the Boltzmann equation approach.
The INSPIRE Group has the pleasure to welcome Prof. Helen Gomonay from the National Technical University of Ukraine. She has done eminent research on AFM spintronics and will give an introductory lecture entitled "Spintronics with antiferromagnets: spinning of spin".
Spin-charge converters are important devices in spintronics, an electronic which is not only based on the charge of electrons but also on their spin and the spin-related magnetism. Spin-charge converters enable the transformation of electric into magnetic signals and vice versa. Recently, the research group of Professor Jairo Sinova from the Institute of Physics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in collaboration with researchers from the UK, the Czech Republic, and Japan has for the first time realized a new efficient spin-charge converter based on the common semiconductor material gallium-arsenide (GaAs).
Continue reading "28.08.2014 Tunable spin-charge converter made of gallium-arsenide realized"
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz established the Gutenberg Research College in 2007 to highlight the university's academic strengths and to promote promising new research fields. Its main instrument is the granting of fellowships to excellent researchers from all disciplines. This year, the GRC welcomed four new fellows, with Jairo Sinova among them.
Our research group of at the Institute of Physics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), in collaboration with researchers from Prague, Cambridge, and Nottingham, have predicted and discovered a new physical phenomenon that allows to manipulate the state of a magnet by electric signals. Continue reading "03.03.2014 Relativity shakes a magnet"
Vivek Amin defends successfully his PhD.
Our group will be joining the Schwerpunktprogramm SPP 1538 on spin-caloritronics.
In collaboration with Henning Sirringhaus (lead PI; Cambridge), Joerg Wunderlich (Cambridge and Prague), and Iain McCulloch (Imperial College) we will explore a new mergence of organic physics and chemistry with spintronic physics to achieve new ways of spin-charge conversion. For more information visit the ERC and the JGU press release here.
Jairo Sinova has been honored by the AvH Professorship award. This will see him relocate to Johannes Gutenberg Universität in Mainz, Germany as of January 2014. This new wonderful opportunity has been made possible by many friends at Mainz, particularly Prof. Mathias Kläui, and all over the world. A principal task that he will undertake is to establish a new kind of interdisciplinary center that focuses on bringing together new fields and disciplines researching spin-phenomena that are ready for a new level of interaction. The various press releases are here and here.
For information regarding the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship see here.
