Partner 1 (Coordinator): IMDEA Nanociencia
Role in the project
IMDEA Nanociencia will be responsible for all the administrative and scientific coordination activities of the project. Besides, IMDEA Nanociencia will charge of the growth of the GREEN-MEM systems, and of their in-situ and ex-situ electronic, chemical, and magneto-transport characterizations. The team will be also involved in the time, spatial and spin resolved characterizations, including the synchrotron-based experiments, in the nanofabrication and test of the prototype devices, and in the multi-scale modelling activities.
Team qualification in the field of proposal
Dr. Paolo Perna is Senior Research Professor, Programme Manager of Nanomagnetism for TIC and head of SpinOrbitronics group at IMDEA Nanociencia. He has vast experience on artificially engineering the surface/interface of nanostructures based on 2D materials, oxides and magnetic materials. He is the scientific coordinator of GREEN-MEM
Elena Alonso is Communications Manager of IMDEA Nanociencia in Dissemination and Communication Office. She is Program Manager of GREEN-MEM.
Dr. Daniel Granados, director of the Nanofabrication facility, head of the Quantum Device and Photonic Group and vice-Director of IMDEA Nanociencia, has vast expertise in the design and fabrication of nanodevices. His research lines include 2D materials, photonics, nano-optics, quantum information technologies and cavity quantum electrodynamics.
Dr. Fernando Ajejas is the head of New Emerging Spintronics Group and has proven experience in the growth and characterization of magnetic materials and multilayers and studies of magnetic textures and interfacial phenomena.
Dr. Miguel Angel Valbuena is the head of Spin-ARPES laboratory and specialized in the study of the electronic structure and magnetic properties of low dimensional systems by means of Synchrotron radiation-based techniques, as Angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) or X-ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism (XMCD).
Dr. Mariela Menghini is the head of Transport in Quantum Materials Group and is expert in transport properties of complex materials including superconductor/ferromagnet hybrids, 2D materials and strongly correlated materials.
Dr. Cristian Svetina is the head of the X-ray Wave-mixing Spectroscopy lab. He is dedicated to the development and implementation of EUV and X-ray wave-mixing techniques on condensed matter systems with vast experience in large-scale facilities (more than 50 experiments at FELs) such as Free Electron Laser (FEL) FERMI, Paul Scherrer Institut – PSI and the SwissFEL.
Dr. Jaime Sanchez-Barriga is a research staff scientist and a group leader at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin for Materials and Energy and at IMDEA Nanociencia. His main research areas are spin-dependent electronic and dynamical properties of low-dimensional systems and their application in spintronics and optospintronics.
Dr. Jose Angel Silva is researcher of the First-Principle Modelling for Quantum Materials Group and he is an expert on first-principles calculations with main interest in 2D materials and their structural, electronic and optical properties.
Dr. Adrian Gudin Holgado is research staff at IMDEA Nanociencia, he is expert in the growth and characterization of thin films and multilayers, and in clean-room nanofabrication of devices.
Scientific infrastructure
The team of IMDEA Nanociencia counts with an arsenal of experimental equipment to tackle the objectives of the project
Materials Growth: Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD), Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) and sputtering cluster with in-situ characterization techniques (XPS, UPS and LEED). Chemical Vapour deposition growth of graphene and TMDs. Sputtering system for oxide deposition. Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD). Anaerobic ambient glove box for exfoliation of 2DMs.
Nanofabrication: Clean-room Class-1000 (ISO-6) with fabrication area (thin film evaporators, Inductively Coupled Plasma Reactive Ion etching (ICP-RIE), Reactive Ion Etching (RIE), wet chemistry room among other techniques. Main Class-100 (ISO-5): e-beam and maskless optical Lithography tools.
Characterization tools: SEM, AFM, XRD, Kerr microscopy and magnetometry (4K-500K) with simultaneous resistance measurements. Transport set-ups: cryogen-free cryostat with 8T superconducting coil and temperature range T = 1.6 K – 400 K; optical cryogen-free cryostat with rotating magnetic field up to 150 mT and T = 4.2 K – 300 K Various probe stations for electrical characterization. Several current-voltage sourcemeters, nanovoltmeters, current sources, lock-in and oscilloscopes. Spin-resolved ARPES (10K – 300 K) with in-situ XPS. Vibrating sample magnetometry (VSM).