Nicola Manca was recently awarded with the “The Oxide Electronics Prize for Excellence in Research” for “his groundbreaking research on microelectromechanical devices with epitaxial oxides”.

Ruggero Vaglio, primo Direttore di SPIN, è stato recentemente nominato tra i membri del Comitato di Valutazione dei Piani Triennali di Attività (PTA) relativi agli enti vigilati dal Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca.

Un team di ricerca internazionale ha comunicato la fabbricazione di un materiale, basato su superconduttori ad alta temperatura critica e su supporto cosiddetto "coated conductor", in grado di far scorrere al suo interno una densità di corrente elettrica record, pari a 190 Milioni di Ampere per centimetro quadrato di sezione, alla temperatura di 4.2 K.

An international collaboration led by researchers from CNR-SPIN (OXiNEMS project) realized a micro-mechanical resonators showing both high-Q-factor and high-Tc superconductivity by growing YBa₂Cu₃O₇ on top of tensile-strained LaAlO₃ micro-bridges. Such devices are of great interest towards the development of advanced sensors, superconducting physics, and quantum opto-mechanics.

In a paper recently published in Nature Communications, an international team, led by Prof. Kian Ping Loh, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and National University of Singapore(NUS), for the experimental part and by Dr. Alessandro Stroppa, CNR-SPIN, for the theoretical part, demonstrates, for the first kind, the coexistence of chirality, electric and magnetic orders in a hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite (R/S)-(MPA)₂CuCl₄ (MPA = β-methylphenethylamine).

The paper "Coherent Quantum Network of Superconducting Qubits as a Highly Sensitive Detector of Microwave Photons for Searching of Galactic Axions", dealing with the demonstration of quantum network of superconducting qubits with highly entangled quantum phases, was recently selected as research highlight within the activities of the National Quantum Science and Technology Institute (NQSTI).

The webpage for the seminar series is now available at the URL: https://www.spin.cnr.it/research/research-seminar-series

During the week 17-24 February 2024, Dr. Fabio Miletto Granozio (FMG), Director of the CNR-SPIN, and Dr. Alessandro Stroppa (AS), Deputy Director of SPIN Unit of L’Aquila, were invited by Prof. Wei Ren, Shanghai University (SHU), to visit several scientific institutions in Shanghai, in order to share common interests for potential collaborations.

A research team which includes a large group of researchers from CNR-SPIN, CNR-IOM together with scientists of University Ca’ Foscari, University of Salerno, and MagTop Research Centre in Warsaw, as well as other national and international partners, has discovered a new state of matter characterized by the existence of a quantum phenomenon dubbed “spin-orbital chiral current”. These currents are generated on an atomic scale by a chiral cooperative movement of electrons, unlike conventional magnetic materials whose properties originate from the quantum characteristic of an electron known as spin and their ordering in the crystal.
Chirality is a property of extreme importance in science. In the quantum phenomenon discovered, the chirality of the currents was detected by studying the interaction between light and matter, in which a suitably polarized photon can emit an electron from the surface of the material with a well-defined spin state.

On December 20^th, the 2023 edition of the Workshop “Best Young Research Article Award (BYRA)” was held online and chaired by the SPIN researcher Carino Ferrante.