Paper by Prof. Fukami et al. published in npj Spintronics
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.
Presentation given in The 7th International Conference of Asian Union of Magnetics Societies (IcAUMS 2025)
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.
Mr. Chiba left for the University of Gothenburg
Shunya Chiba (D3) leaves for the University of Gothenburg for an overseas training.
Paper by Prof. Yamane et al. published in Physical Review B
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.
Cherry blossom viewing
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).
Paper by Prof. Gas et al. published in APL Materials
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.
Prof. Dohi awarded the Funai Information Technology Award for Young Researchers
Assistant Professor Takaaki Dohi is awarded the Funai Information Technology Award for outstanding studies on “Pioneering Antiferromagnetic Skyrmionics”. Congratulations!
Prof. Kanai awarded Funai Information Technology Award for Young Researchers
Associate Professor Shun Kanai is awarded the Funai Information Technology Award for outstanding studies on “Unconventional Electronic Devices Based on Spin Dynamics”. Congratulations!
Dr. Kawarazaki joined us as a JSPS Post-doctoral Fellow
Dr. Ryo Kawarazaki joined us as a JSPS Post-doctoral Fellow.
Ms. Kaneko awarded the Outstanding Student Award of the Group of Electrical Engineering Communication Engineering, Electronic Engineering and Information Engineering
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 took off
Mr. Kubota, Mr. Kurihara, and Mr. Takano received the Master Degree of Engineering. Congratulations! We wish your great success in the future!
Mr. Nihei awarded the Dean’s Award of the School of Engineering
Mr. Nihei (B4) is awarded the Dean’s Award of the School of Engineering. Congratulations!
Presentation given in the APS Global Physics Summit 2025
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.
Mr. Uchimura left for the Czech Academy of Sciences
Tomohiro Uchimura (D3) leaves for the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences for an overseas training.
Farewell party
We held a farewell party for members who are going to graduate this March (Kubota kun, Kurihara kun, and Takano kun).
Skiing
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. Lagarrigue is awarded the Best Poster Award
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 Future of Computing: Perspectives” held
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.
Paper by Mr. Uchimura et al. published in Physical Review Letters
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.
Edouard left after six month of stay
Mr. Edouard Kremer (Research Student) returned to the University of Lorraine after six months stay.
Salvatore joined us as a JSPS Post-doctoral Fellow
Dr. Salvatore Teresi joined us as a JSPS Post-doctoral Fellow.
Presentation given in the 5th IEEE Conference on Advances in Magnetics (IEEE-AIM2025)
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. Kaneko is awarded the Best Poster Award
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.)
Paper by Prof. Han et al. published in Newton (Cell Press)
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).
Paper by Dr. Ju-Young Yoon et al. published in Nature Communications
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“
Paper by Mr. Uchimura et al. published in Physical Review Letters
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 took off
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. Diaz joined us as a Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Eva Diaz joined us as a Postdoctoral Fellow.
Year-End and Welcome Party
We held the year-end party together with a welcome party for new Bachelor 3rd grade students.
Prof. Han awarded the IEEE Magnetics Society Early Career Award
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!
Presentation given in the 70th Annual IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM 2024)
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“
“SpinX 2024 : Harnessing Spintronics for Tomorrow’s Technology” held
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.
Ekiden (long-distance relay race)
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!
“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)” held
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.
Imoni party
We held “Imoni party”, a traditional event in Tohoku region similar to barbecue. It was wonderful and everyone had a good time.
“THE FUTURE OF COMPUTING: PERSPECTIVES” will be held
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
“SpinX 2024 : Harnessing Spintronics for Tomorrow’s Technology” will be held
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
Paper by Mr.Chiba et al. published in Nano Letters
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.
Fabian left after three month of stay
Mr. Fabian Kammerbauer (Research Student) returned to Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz after three months stay.
Paper by Prof. Fukami et al. published in IEEE Electron Devices Magazine
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.
Paper published in Communications Materials
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.
Paper published in Applied Physics Letters
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.
“Japanese–Polish Emerging Perspective Workshop – Toward the Quantum Computing” held
A workshop aiming at strategic collaborations between Poland and Tohoku University in the fields of spintronics, quantum science/materials, etc., “Japanese–Polish Emerging Perspective Workshop – Toward the Quantum Computing” was held on October 3-4.
Active discussion was took place by 21 researchers from Poland and 18 researchers from Tohoku University.
Victor joined us as a visiting student
Mr. Victor Huet joined us as a Double Degree Course Student between the University of Lorraine (France) and Tohoku University.
Paper published in Physical Review B
Our paper “Effect of nonlinear magnon interactions on stochastic magnetization switching” by M. Elyasi, S. Kanai, H. Ohno, S. Fukami, and G. E. W. Bauer was published in Physical Review B.
Paper published in ACS Nano
Our paper “Block Copolymer-Directed Single-Diamond Hybrid Structures Derived from X-ray Nanotomography” by K. Djeghdi, D. Karpov, S. N. Abdollahi, K. Godlewska, R. Iseli, M. Holler, C. Donnelly, T. Yuasa, H. Sai, U. B. Wiesner, U. Steiner, B. D. Wilts, M. Musya, S. Fukami, H. Ohno, A. Diaz, J. Llandro and I. Gunkel was published in ACS Nano.
Freya left after one month of stay
Dr. Freya Johnson (Visiting Researcher) returned to the University of Cambridge after one month stay.
Edouard joined us as a Research Student
Mr. Edouard Kremer of the University of Lorraine joined us as a Research Student.
Mr. Uchimura returned from TU Dortmund
Tomorhiro Uchimura (D2) returned from TU Dortmund after a three-months overseas training.
Freya joined us as a Visiting Researcher
Dr. Freya Johnson of the University of Cambridge joined us as a Visiting Researcher.