Symposium on nanomagnetism co-organized by nanoGUNE

Dr. Andreas Berger, nanoGUNE Research Director and leader of the nanomagnetism group, co-organizes New Trends and Developments in Nanomagnetism, a symposium that will be celebrated in the framework of the Spring Meeting 2012 of the Materials Research Society. This symposium is focusing on recent trends in nanoscale magnetism and related technologies like advanced characterization techniques and fabrication processes that foster or initiate new development. The goal is to emphasize the strong mutual interaction between current research and present and future technologies.

 

 

Research on nanoscale magnetic systems is driven by scientific interest as well as commercial needs. The demand for smaller feature sizes and higher speed of magnetic devices requires a fundamental understanding of the processes involved that can only be achieved by aligning activities in basic research with device developments. Hereby, it is crucial that the reduced dimensions, which are currently addressed, have become comparable to the characteristic lengths of metallic systems, i.e., spin-diffusion length or mean-free path. On these scales, new experiments become feasible, such as research on spin-current and spin-Hall effects.

Contents of the symposium include, but are not restricted to:

 

  • Fabrication of magnetic nanostructures
  • Magnetic imaging and microscopy of nanostructures
  • Spin dynamics and ultrafast switching
  • Current driven magnetization processes and magnetization dynamics
  • Spin current and spin injection in metallic systems
  • Spintronics application and nanomagnetic devices
  • Magnetoplasmonics
  • Biomagnetic applications

The symposium will be celebrated in San Francisco, California, from 13 to 19 April 2012. Prof. Hans Peter Oepen from the University of Hamburg and a former Ikerbasque Visiting Fellow at nanoGUNE is also part of the Organizing Committee and Dr. Paolo Vavassori, Group Coleader of the nanomagnetism group at nanoGUNE will give one of the invited lectures.

Check http://www.mrs.org/s12-cfp-ll/ for more detailed information.