Diminishing the size of magnetic systems is of growing societal importance. A key research focus is to implement new approaches for fabricating size-controlled materials of size below 10 nm, in the search for novel emerging spin dependent properties, aiming for electronic properties at the molecular or atomic scale. The team is developing technical methodologies at the interface with chemistry, with expertise in sensitive and fast (opto)electronic measurements at low temperatures under magnetic field.
We are particularly interested in 2D systems, either self-standing or at buried interfaces, as key nanoscale elements for devices architectures.
Another multidisciplinary activity takes advantage of magnetic forces, and their increase when decreasing the size of the magnet source, to impact surface chemistry or transport of biological materials.