Kaiserslautern hosts top-level conference on “New Concept Spintronic Devices”

More than 80 scientists of physics, engineering and materials science came together from May 28 to May 30, 2018 in Kaiserslautern for the top-level Core-to-Core Conference 2018 on "New Concept Spintronic Devices" in order to exchange their results regarding research and development of spintronic elements for computer chips and sensors.The event was organized by physicists of the TU Kaiserslautern (TUK) in cooperation with their international partners from Sendai, Japan (Tohoku University) and York, UK (York University). Basis of the cooperation is the Japanese/British/German "Core-to-Core" program, which is financed on the German side by the German Research Society (DFG). The "Core-to-Core" initiative aims at bringing together leading research groups after the so-called "best with best" principle. Goal of the workshop was to show new trends in spintronics, namely new materials for nanospintronic elements, manipulation of spins in ultrafast timescales for ultrafast data memory chips and the transformation of spins in nanoscale using heat, light and electric fields. At the University of Kaiserslautern the CRC SPIN+Xis doing research in these fields. SPIN+Xprincipal investigators Professor Hillebrands and Junior-Professor Evangelos Papaioannou organized the DFG-financed conference. Amongst the guests were the new president of the Tohoku University Sendai, Professor Hideo Ohno, and Professor Kevin O'Grady from York University, who gave a talk on experiments on ferrofluids as part of the physical lecture series at the TU Kaiserslautern.