Team

2D spintronics

Scientific activity

Spintronics is a quantum technology that emerged in the late 1980s. It involves the exploration of new materials and physical phenomena using not only the charge of electrons to transmit information, but also their spin, an intrinsic property of electrons which is a quantum quantity without equivalent on our scale. This coding by the spin variable is already widely used in hard disks and other random access memories (MRAMs). It is also envisaged as a major asset for post-CMOS logic, towards the fusion of in-memory processing with stochastic, neuromorphic and quantum technologies. The aim of our research is to create synergies and develop new ideas at the interface between the emerging nanoelectronics fields of spintronics and two-dimensional materials, including complex van der Waals heterostructures (quantum wells and superlattices), graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) and graphene quantum dots (GQDs). Our aim is to provide new solutions for tomorrow’s post-CMOS low-power electronics by focusing on researching, understanding and exploiting new physical mechanisms beyond those usually available with conventional spintronic materials.