Prof. Tomasz Dietl, who served as a Visiting Professor from 2018-2020, is awarded the Tohoku University International Award – Special Award. As part of Tohoku University’s Homecoming Day 2025, scheduled for Saturday, October 11 at the Tohoku University Centennial Hall (Kawauchi Hagi Hall), the university will host an award ceremony.
Congratulations, Prof. Dietl!
Mr. Shunya Chiba (D3) is awarded the Best Poster Award for his poster presentation at the Swedish-Korean Orbitronics Workshop (SKOW 2025) for his presentation titled “Comparative Study of Current-Induced Torque in Cr/CoFeB/MgO and W/CoFeB/MgO”. Congratulations!
Our paper “Ferromagnetic resonance in a magnetically dilute percolating ferromagnet: An experimental and theoretical study” by Y. K. Edathumkandy, K. Das, K. Gas, D. Sztenkiel, D. Hommel, H. Przybylińska, and M. Sawicki was published in Physical Review B.
Our paper “Unraveling effects of competing interactions and frustration in vdW ferromagnetic Fe3GeTe2 nanoflake devices” by R. R. Chowdhury, D. Kurebayashi, J. Lustikova , O. A.Tretiakov, S. Fukami, R. P. Singh, and S. DuttaGupta was published in Applied Physics Letters.
Ms. Antonia Niklasch of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz joined us as a Visiting Student.
The second match in a group league of the ECEI (Group of Electrical Engineering, Communication Engineering, Electronic Engineering, and Information Engineering) Futsal Tournament was held. Taking advantage of the rule of free substitution of players with a numerical superiority situation, we won the game by 10 to 2, proceeding to the knock-out stage.
Our paper “Electrically Controlled Nonlinear Magnon-Magnon Coupling in a Synthetic Antiferromagnet” by A. Sud, K. Yamamoto, S. Iihama, K. Ishibashi, S. Fukami, H. Kurebayashi, and S. Mizukami was published in Physical Review Letters.
Press release: “Observation of Rabi-like Splitting Under Electrical Control in Artificial Magnets”
Tomohiro Uchimura (D3) returned from Czech Academy of Sciences after a three-months overseas training.
In addition, a paper titled “Single-crystalline CrSb(0001) thin films grown by dc magnetron co-sputtering” containing his contributions during the overseas training was published on June 3 in Physical Review Materials.
Our members, Prof. Fukami, Prof. Kanai, Dr. Nuno Cacoilo, Haruna Kaneko (D1), Manato Kawahara (D1), Takuma Kinoshita (M2), Yoshiki Maeda (M1), Prof. Ohno, Prof. Akerman, attended the International Workshop on Ising Machines – 2025 held in Evanston, IL, USA on May 13-15 and Second Workshop on the Chicago-Tohoku Quantum Alliance held in the University of Chicago, IL, USA on May 15-16, and gave presentations.
Our paper “Spintronic memristors for computing” by Q. Shao, Z. Wang, Y. Zhou, S. Fukami, D. Querlioz, and L. O. Chua was published in npj Spintronics.
Our members, Prof. S. Fukami, Assoc. Prof. J. Han, T. Kinoshita (M2), and T. Tasaki (M2) attended “The 7th International Conference of Asian Union of Magnetics Societies (IcAUMS 2025)” held in Okinawa Prefecture, on April 21-23 and gave presentations.
Shunya Chiba (D3) leaves for the University of Gothenburg for an overseas training.
Our paper “Interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in nonmagnetic/noncollinear-antiferromagnetic bilayers” by Y. Yamane, Y. Araki, and S. Fukami was published in Physical Review B.
We had a cherry blossom viewing party (“Hanami” in Japanese) with our lab members, which also served as a welcome party for new members (1 PD, 3 M1 students).
Our paper “Magnetic phase diagram of Mn3+xSn1−x epitaxial thin films: Extending the anomalous Hall effect to low temperatures via intrinsic alloying” by K. Gas, J.-Y. Yoon, Y. Sato, H. Kubota, P. Dłużewski, S. Kret, J. Z. Domagala, Y. K. Edathumkandy, Y. Takeuchi, S. Kanai, H. Ohno, M. Sawicki, and S. Fukami was published in APL Materials.
Assistant Professor Takaaki Dohi is awarded the Funai Information Technology Award for outstanding studies on “Pioneering Antiferromagnetic Skyrmionics”. Congratulations!
Associate Professor Shun Kanai is awarded the Funai Information Technology Award for outstanding studies on “Unconventional Electronic Devices Based on Spin Dynamics”. Congratulations!
Dr. Ryo Kawarazaki joined us as a JSPS Post-doctoral Fellow.
Ms. Kaneko (D1) is awarded the Outstanding Student Award of the Group of Electrical Engineering, Communication Engineering, Electronic Engineering and Information Engineering. Congratulations!
Mr. Kubota, Mr. Kurihara, and Mr. Takano received the Master Degree of Engineering. Congratulations! We wish your great success in the future!
Mr. Nihei (B4) is awarded the Dean’s Award of the School of Engineering. Congratulations!
Our members, Assoc. Prof. S. Kanai, Assoc. Prof. Y. Yamane, M. Kawahara (D1) attended the”APS Global Physics Summit 2025“held in Anaheim, California, USA , on March16-21 and gave presentations.
Tomohiro Uchimura (D3) leaves for the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences for an overseas training.
We held a farewell party for members who are going to graduate this March (Kubota kun, Kurihara kun, and Takano kun).
We visited the Grandeco Snow Resort in Fukushima Prefecture on March 1-2.
We all from the beginners to experts enjoyed skiing/snowboarding during the two days.
Dr. Aurelien Lagarrigue (Postdoctoral Fellow) is awarded the Best Poster Award for his presentation at the “The Future of Computing: Perspective” held on 2025/2/25-28.
The title of the awarded presentation is “Analog control of antiferromagnet/ferromagnet magnetic tunnel junctions through spin-orbit torque”.
Congratulations!
(Photographs at the ceremony, and the certificate and supplementary prize)
The international symposium “The Future of Computing: Perspectives” was held on 2025/2/25-28. It was organised as a joint conference of The 21st RIEC International Workshop on Spintronics, The 13th RIEC International Symposium on Brain Functions and Brain Computer (BFBC2025), and The 4th Symposium on Multicellular Neurobiocomputing. We invited the world leading researchers promoting pioneering research in spintronics, other solid-state devices, silicon integrated circuits, optical and quantum technologies, neuroscience, etc., and had lively discussions for the realization of future computers with high performance and energy efficiency.
A total of 246 participants (including 92 online), from a total of 18 countries and regions, attended the conference, which consisted of 36 invited talks (9 of which were keynote talks), 7 general oral talks and 50 poster presentations.
We appreciate all the presenters and participants.
Mr. Edouard Kremer (Visiting Student) returned to the University of Lorraine after six months stay.
Our members, Prof. Shunsuke Fukami, Mr. Tomohiro Uchimura (D3), Mr. Yuma Sato (D2), and Ms. Haruna Kaneko (D1) attended the 5th IEEE Conference on Advances in Magnetics (IEEE-AIM2025) held in Bressanone, Italy on February 9-12, and gave presentations.
Ms. Haruna Kaneko (D1) is awarded the Best Poster Award for her poster presentation at the 5th IEEE Conference on Advances in Magnetics (IEEE-AIM2025). Congratulations!
(Prof. Fukami received the award certificate on behalf of Ms. Kaneko, who returned to Japan earlier due to the next commitment.)
Our paper “Unconventional responses in non-collinear antiferromagnets” by J. Han, J-Y. Yoon, H. Ohno and S. Fukami was published in Newton (Cell Press).
Our paper “Electrical mutual switching in a noncollinear-antiferromagnetic–ferromagnetic heterostructure” by J-Y. Yoon, Y. Takeuchi, R. Takechi, J. Han, T. Uchimura, Y. Yamane, S. Kanai, J. Ieda, H. Ohno, and S. Fukami was published in Nature Communications.
Press release: “New AI Function on the Horizon Thanks to Electrically Programmable Spintronic Device“
Our paper “Unconventional Spin Hall Magnetoresistance in Noncollinear Antiferromagnet/Heavy Metal Stacks” by T. Uchimura, J. Han, P. Tang, J.-Y. Yoon, Y. Takeuchi, Y. Yamane, S. Kanai, G. E. W. Bauer, H. Ohno, and S. Fukami was published in Physical Review Letters.
Dr. Ju-Young Yoon (received Ph. D. in 2023) resigned from the Specially-Appointed Research Fellow of RIEC and left for Switzerland to be assigned to a Researcher at the ETH Zurich. We wish you great success!
Dr. Eva Diaz joined us as a Postdoctoral Fellow.
Our members, Prof. Fukami, Assoc. Prof. Jiahao Han, Visiting Prof. Mike Sawicki, Assist. Prof. Katarzyna Gas, Dr. Aurelien Lagarrigue, Dr. Ju-Young Yoon, Mr. Yuma Sato (D2), Ms. Haruna Kaneko (D1) attended the The 16th Joint Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials and Intermag (MMM-Intermag 2025) held in New Orleans, USA on January 13-17, and gave presentations.
In addition, an award ceremony for Dr. Jiahao Han who received the IEEE Magnetics Society Early Career Award was held during the conference.
We held the year-end party together with a welcome party for new Bachelor 3rd grade students.
Associate Professor Jiahao Han (AIMR) is awarded the IEEE Magnetics Society Early Career Award for outstanding studies on controlling magnonic and nonlinear electronic transport by magnetic textures, and on implementing topological insulators to achieve room-temperature efficient magnetic switching.
The award ceremony will take place in the 16th Joint Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials and Intermag to be held in New Orleans, USA, on January 13-17, 2025.
He will be the first awardee in Japanese institutions. Huge congratulations!
Our collaborative research with UC Santa Barbara “Beyond Ising: Mixed Continuous Optimization with Gaussian Probabilistic Bits using Stochastic MTJs” by N. S. Singh, C. Delacour, S. Niazi, K. Selcuk, D. Golenchenko, H. Kaneko, S. Kanai, H. Ohno, S. Fukami and K. Y. Camsari was presented in the 70th Annual IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM 2024) on December 10th in San Francisco.
Press release: “Researchers Develop Spintronics Platform for Energy-Efficient Generative AI“
An international workshop: “SpinX 2024 : Harnessing Spintronics for Tomorrow’s Technology” was held from December 9th to 10th. Fusion of spintronics with something X (= magnon, skyrmion, computing, etc.) was actively discussed by 41 participants in total.
We participated in the 58th Ekiden race (long-distance relay race) of the Group of Electrical Engineering, Communication Engineering, Electronic Engineering, and Information Engineering. We came 4th out of 33 teams!
An International Symposium: “CRCGP-MSSP 2024 (The 8th Symposium for the Core Research Clusters for Materials Science and Spintronics and the 7th Symposium on International Joint Graduate Programs in Materials Science and Spintronics)” was held from November 18th to 21st.
We had 344 participants from 17 countries and regions.
We held “Imoni party”, a traditional event in Tohoku region similar to barbecue. It was wonderful and everyone had a good time.
We are pleased to announce the “21st RIEC International Workshop on Spintronics” that will be held as a part of a joint symposium “THE FUTURE OF COMPUTING: PERSPECTIVES” on February 25-28, 2025, at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
The objective of this symposium is to provide an opportunity to discuss the future of computing by a variety of researchers studying unconventional computers. The symposium will be constructed by multidisciplinary sessions consisting of speakers from different fields and focused sessions for silicon technologies, spintronics, and neurobiocomputing.
For details, please see the website of the symposium:
https://www.nanospin.riec.tohoku.ac.jp/RIEC_Sympo/index.html
We are pleased to announce an international workshop “SpinX 2024 : Harnessing Spintronics for Tomorrow’s Technology” to be held on December 9-10 at Tohoku University. Magnonics, spin-orbit torque, neuromorphic computing, skyrmionics, etc. will be discussed.
For details, please see the website of the symposium:
https://sites.google.com/view/spinx2024/home
Our paper “Comparative Study of Current-Induced Torque in Cr/CoFeB/MgO and W/CoFeB/MgO” by S. Chiba, Y. Marui, H. Ohno, and S. Fukami was published in Nano Letters.
Mr. Fabian Kammerbauer (Visiting Student) returned to Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz after three months stay.
An application note “Impact of External Magnetic Fields on STT-MRAM” by the MRAM Technology Group including Prof. Fukami was published in IEEE Electron Devices Magazine.
Our paper “Electric-field manipulation of magnetization in an insulating dilute ferromagnet through piezoelectromagnetic coupling” by D. Sztenkiel, K. Gas, N. G. Szwacki, M. Foltyn, C. Śliwa, T. Wojciechowski, J.Z. Domagala, D. Hommel, M. Sawicki, and T. Dietl was published in Communications Materials.
Our paper “Spin Hall magnetoresistance in Pt/(Ga,Mn)N devices” by J. A. M.-Rodarte, K. Gas, M. H-Zaldívar, D. Hommel, M. Sawicki, and M. H. D. Guimarães was published in Applied Physics Letters.