C-SPIN - Center for Spintronic Materials, Interfaces, and Novel Architectures

Welcome

The Center for Spintronic Materials, Interfaces, and Novel Architectures (C-SPIN) is a multi-university research center that brings together top researchers from across the nation to develop technologies for spin-based computing and memory systems. Unlike today’s computers, which function on the basis of electrical charges moving across wires, the emerging spin-based computing systems will process and store information through spin, a fundamental property of electrons.

Spin-based logic and memory have the potential to create computers that are smaller, faster and more energy-efficient than conventional charge-based systems.

Research conducted by C-SPIN also hase an impact beyond the world of computer science through advances in materials science, chemistry, circuit design, nanotechnology, and many other fields.

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Research Areas

Perpendicular Magnetic Materials
Research to develop magnetic materials that will improve the power consumption scalability and stability of magnetic device structures

Spin Channel Materials
Research aimed at investigating a wide range of spin channel materials, including topological insulators, monolayer MoS2 and graphene

Spintronic Interface Engineering
Research focused on understanding, designing, modeling, making and optimizing the interfaces between magnetic materials and spin channels

Spin Devices and Interconnects
Research to develop novel memory, logic and communication device solutions necessary to realize a complete spintronic computational system.

Spintronic Circuits and Architectures
Research to develop novel architectural solutions that take advantage of the unique functionality that can be achieved using a spin-based technology.

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