C-SPIN in the Spotlight at the Joint MMM-Intermag Conference

Angeline Smith, a University of Minnesota Ph.D. candidate from Prof.
Jian-Ping Wang's group won a best poster award on her recent work,
"Novel Spin Hall Effect Device for Perpendicular Magnetization Reversal
Using a Dipole-Coupled Composite Structure."

More than ten C-SPIN PIs and nearly twenty C-SPIN students and postdoctoral fellows presented their C-SPIN research at the world's largest magnetic and spintronics conference this January in San Diego. Among them were three C-SPIN PIs who delivered prestigious invited talks on future spintronic materials and devices to more than 1,800 participants from magnetic and spintronic research institutions and industry.

  • Prof. Maxim Tsoi from University of Texas at Austin, who demonstrated the world's first electrical switching of antiferromagnetic material, gave a talk on the interconnection between magnetic states and transport currents in antiferromagnetic Sr2IrO4.
  • Prof. Christian Binek from University of Nebraska, who pioneered the research on the magnetoelectrical switching study of Cr2O3, gave a talk on magnetoelectric antiferromagnets for ultra-low power memory and logic and device applications.
  • Prof. Geoff Beach from MIT, who co-discovered the voltage controlled magnetism on GdOx/Co bilayer structure, gave a talk on enhanced magneto-ionic switching of interface anisotropy in Pt/Co/GdOx films.

We have seen more and more researchers from STARnet companies participating and presenting exciting work at magnetic and spintronics conferences since the kickoff of C-SPIN. At this conference, Dr. Sasikanth Manipatruni from Intel, one of the world leading researchers on spin logic scaling study and a C-SPIN industry associate, presented a new and more scalable spin device concept by representing the Intel team: spin-orbit logic with magneto-electric nodes mediated by charge interconnects.

Angeline Smith, a University of Minnesota Ph.D. candidate from Prof. Jian-Ping Wang's group won a best poster award on her recent work, "Novel Spin Hall Effect Device for Perpendicular Magnetization Reversal Using a Dipole-Coupled Composite Structure." A patent application on this new concept was filed with the support of STARnet in 2015.