The SPIN Institute Council has selected the coordinators for the three SPIN research Areas. The new coordinators are:

Valeria Braccini for “Superconductors and Innovative materials for Energy and Environment”

Nicola Manca for “Functional and Complex Materials for Innovative Electronics and Sensing”

Marco Salluzzo for “Quantum Science and Technologies”

Transition metal ditellurides (TMDT) exhibit various physical phenomena originating from the strong spin-orbit coupling. In particular, it is known that T_d phase bilayer WTe₂ exhibits the non-linear Hall effect (NLH), which can occur in a time-reversal symmetric condition. However, due to a small difference in the electronegativities of tungsten/molybdenum and tellurium, it is difficult to synthesize uniform and clean few-layer WTe₂ or MoTe₂ single crystals via a common chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method.

Dal 20 ottobre al 1 novembre 2022 si terrà la ventesima edizione del Festival della Scienza, con parola chiave “linguaggi” e quest’anno caratterizzato da 301 eventi organizzati in diversi luoghi nella città di Genova. SPIN partecipa con una mostra  e una conferenza sulla fusione nucleare e una mostra sui sensori di campo magnetico.

In a recent paper just published in the journal SMALL, researchers from the CNR-SPIN and the University of Genoa show that micro-mechanical-systems made of (La,Sr)MnO₃, a well-known magnetic oxide, have the potential to be employed as highly sensitive micromechanical resonators for detectors.

Le date di Venerdì 30 Settembre e Sabato 1 Ottobre segnano, per l’anno in corso, il ritorno dell’ormai classico appuntamento autunnale con “La Notte Europea dei Ricercatori”.

The growing demand for next-generation electronics providing a link between living matter and the digital world has favored the growth of highly adaptable electronic functional elements capable of recognizing environmental changes by responding to electrical, magnetic, optical and thermal stimuli.

After a long discussion phase supervised by the Director Fabio Miletto Granozio together with the Institute Council and involving the entire community through different initiatives, three new Research Areas have been identified as the main pillars of the SPIN future scientific organization.

With the paper “Anyons in Quantum Hall Interferometry” published in Nature Review Physics, Matteo Carrega is the winner of the Best Young Research Article Award for the 2022 edition.

The international workshop “Challenges in Designing Room Temperature Superconductors” will be held in L’Aquila, on July 26^th-29^th 2022.

The High-Performance Computing-Europa3 program has been recently concluded. Its main goals were to offer access to world-class HPC systems for academic and industrial researchers; scientific collaboration with host researchers in any field; technical support by the HPC centers; travel and living expenses reimbursed.