Ferroelectric hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites (HOIPs) are attracting intense attention owing to their striking performance rivaling with that in perovskite oxides, ease of synthesis, low cost and environmental benignness. Despite the rapid discovery of many ferroelectric HOIPs, the intrinsic thermodynamic driving mechanisms of their ferroelectric transitions remain still not fully understood.

Dr. Matteo Carrega, together with Dr. S. Heun (CNR-NANO), reported in Nature Physics News&views on a recent direct measure of magnon thermodynamic quantities in high-quality graphene, that has been performed in Prof. Yacoby's group at Harvard.

Si è da poco conclusa, l’undicesima edizione della Settimana Italia-Cina della scienza, tecnologia e innovazione che guarda alla ripartenza post-pandemia, alle trasformazioni della società e dell’economia con la transizione digitale e la sostenibilità ambientale, facendo tesoro della cooperazione tra operatori italiani e cinesi consolidatasi nel corso degli anni.

Within the Core-to-core “Oxide Superspin (OSS)” Project, CNR-SPIN (M. Cuoco,  R. Fittipaldi, P. Gentile, and A. Vecchione) is supporting the organization of the Workshop Oxide Superspin 2021 (OSS2021) which will be held in Kyoto from December 13 (Mon) to 17 (Fri), 2021.

According to Web of Science, the manuscript “Towards Oxide Electronics: a Roadmap” by M. Coll et al., published on Applied Surface Science (Volume 482, 15 July 2019), is among the top cited papers.

The international patent application WO2021209891 “Magnetic Field Sensor” from the National Research Council passed the first selection of the “Intellectual Property Award 2021”.

Dal 23 Novembre al 3 Dicembre 2021, si rinnova, presso la Città della Scienza di Napoli, l’appuntamento con Futuro Remoto. Nato nel 1987 e tra le più longeve manifestazioni dedicate in Europa alla diffusione della cultura scientifica e tecnologica, nell’edizione di quest’anno Futuro Remoto ha per titolo “TRANSIZIONI”.

Università di Genova (chairman: Prof. Mauro Giovannini), INFN, and CNR-SPIN (A. Martinelli) are organizing the 51^st edition of the Journées des Actinides, which will be held in Santa Margherita Ligure (GE), April 10-14 2022.

Also this year SPIN participates in the 2021 edition of the Science Festival with the virtual edition (visitable here)  of the Super! Exhibitions on the present and future applications of superconductivity.

An international team of researchers coordinated by Christian Rinaldi from Politecnico di Milano has unveiled the potential of germanium telluride (GeTe) for ultralow-power spin-based electronics. These findings were reported in the Nature Electronics issue of October 2021 (click here for a view-only full-text access).