A spintronic view of the effect of chiral molecules

Researchers verified the chiral-induced spin selectivity effect, i.e., the influence of chiral molecules on spin, using spintronic analytical techniques

04-Feb-2025 - The role of electrons and their negative charge in electric current is well established. Electrons also exhibit other intrinsic properties that are associated, for example, with considerable potential for enhancing data storage devices: the electron's spin or magnetic moment. To date, however, ...

New avenues in quantum research: supramolecular qubit candidates detected

The Franco-German research team shows that supramolecular chemistry enables efficient spin communication through hydrogen bonds

30-Jan-2025 - Qubits are the basic building blocks of information processing in quantum technology. An important research question is what material they will actually consist of in technical applications. Molecular spin qubits are considered promising qubit candidates for molecular spintronics, in particular ...

Researchers show that chiral oxide catalysts align electron spin

Researchers from Münster and Pittsburgh look for causes of spin polarisation in these materials

23-Sep-2022 - Controlling the spin of electrons opens up future scenarios for applications in spin-based electronics (spintronics), for example in data processing. It also presents new opportunities for controlling the selectivity and efficiency of chemical reactions. Researchers recently presented first ...

Spintronics: Giant Rashba semiconductors show unconventional dynamics with potential applications

07-Jul-2022 - Germanium telluride is a strong candidate for use in functional spintronic devices due to its giant Rashba-effect. Now, scientists at HZB have discovered another intriguing phenomenon in GeTe by studying the electronic response to thermal excitation of the samples. To their surprise, the ...

Breakthrough for efficient and high-speed spintronic devices

New soft X-ray source could be used for many applications in physics, chemistry, and biology

27-Apr-2022 - INRS researchers and international partners have succeeded in looking at spin inside rare earth materials, using a tabletop ultrafast soft-X-ray microscope, for the first time. Sharing real-time information requires complex networks of systems. A promising approach for speeding up data storage ...

The interplay between Topology and Magnetism has a bright future

04-Mar-2022 - The new review paper on magnetic topological materials of Andrei Bernevig, Princeton University, USA, Haim Beidenkopf, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, and Claudia Felser, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany, introduces the new theoretical concept that ...

New materials for quantum technologies

Solids with special symmetries for quantum and spintronics applications

27-Dec-2021 - While conventional electronics relies on the transport of electrons, components that convey spin information alone may be many times more energy efficient. Physicists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart have now made an ...

“Bite” defects in bottom-up graphene nanoribbons

Important findings in the context of the potential applications of graphene nanoribbons in nanoelectronics and quantum technology

27-May-2021 - Scientists at Empa and EPFL have identified a new type of defect as the most common source of disorder in on-surface synthesized graphene nanoribbons, a novel class of carbon-based materials that may prove extremely useful in next-generation electronic devices. The researchers identified the ...

Germanium telluride's hidden properties at the nanoscale revealed

How the spin texture switches by ferroelectric polarization within individual nanodomains

10-Nov-2020 - Germanium Telluride is an interesting candidate material for spintronic devices. In a comprehensive study at BESSY II, a Helmholtz-RSF Joint Research Group has now revealed how the spin texture switches by ferroelectric polarization within individual nanodomains. Germanium telluride (GeTe) is ...

Scientists create three-dimensional nanostructures using ion beams

For tomorrow’s computers

21-Oct-2020 - Effects at the interface between magnetic and non-magnetic layers have been exploited for data storage for three decades. This has led to a steady increase in hard drive storage capacity and is one reason why researchers see potential for ushering data processing into a new era. One way these ...