SPARK-e is a new project funded by the European Innovation Council (EIC) with a total budget of almost €4 million. This collaborative consortium, made up of 10 partners from seven different countries, will design and test a new generation of phase change materials (PCMs) to boost the performance and extend the lifetime of smart edge devices.

As in the past years, and always with the goal of promoting the original contributions of young researchers on relevant research topics, the SPIN institute has assigned the Best Young Research Article (BYRA) award in 2025 to a scientist under the age of 35 who is part of the SPIN community.

A superconducting spin valve (SSV) is a device typically having a ferromagnet/superconductor/ferromagnet (F/S/F) sandwich structure. It can switch between a resistive and a dissipationless state upon the application of a small in-plane magnetic field, which allows the relative orientation of the F-layer magnetizations to change from parallel to antiparallel, respectively. 

Nonlinear effects of a visible beam interacting with a material are typically probed by a pulsed laser with high brilliance. Free-Electron-Laser facilities offer the advantage to extend such investigations in the extreme ultraviolet (XUV) but at the same time inherently limit practical applications.

Scientists J. Clarke, M. H. Devoret, and J. M. Martinis were recently awarded of the Nobel in physics "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit".

Con delibera n. 138/2025, firmata dal Presidente il 23/09/2025, la posizione di SPIN nella specifica graduatoria di “complessità” degli istituti del CNR è stata aggiornata, portando l’istituto alla promozione nella cosiddetta “fascia A”. 

In a collaboration between CNR-SPIN, CNR-NANO and UNIGE, important information on the current-phase-relationship of planar Josephson junctions has been obtained.

Through a collaboration between CNR-SPIN Naples, the Physics Department of the University of Naples Federico II, and the Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut PSI- team, a novel example of a polar two-dimensional metal has been unveiled.

An international team of scientists from the University of St Andrews (UK) and the CNR-SPIN Institute (Italy) has set a new benchmark in the precision with which researchers can probe fundamental physical phenomena in quantum materials. Their breakthrough study, published in Nature Physics, confirms a nearly century-old theoretical prediction, and may have far-reaching implications for materials science and advanced computing.

An international team of researchers has discovered a new magnetic state of matter, termed orthogonal ferromagnetism. The results, led by Federico Mazzola (CNR-SPIN), were recently published in Nature Communications.