Partner 3: Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM)
Role in the project
The UAM team will participate in all WPs with focus on the harmonic transport and in-operando wide-field MOKE characterization of the fabricated devices, as well as on current-driven magnetic switching experiments. The group will also help in the design and fabrication of devices and contribute to implement the pulsing experiments onto the AFM materials at SOLARIS.
Team qualification in the field of proposal
The Spintronics and Nanodevices group led by Prof. Saül Vélez at UAM specializes in employing advanced nanofabrication and characterization techniques to investigate current-induced magnetization dynamics and emerging magneto-transport and spin transport phenomena in magnetic functional heterostructures.
The UAM team is formed by Dr. Adrián Gudín (Google Scholar) expert in fabrication, magneto-transport and magneto-optics characterization, and 3 PhD students carrying out their main research in orbitronics phenomena and ferroelectric tunning of spintronic devices (MSc. P. Pradeep), spin-orbit torques, magnonics, and current manipulation of magnetic textures (MSc. H. Madathil), and AFM spintronics and MOKE microscopy (MSc. G. Orero).
Scientific infrastructure
The group hosts a set of harmonic transport and magnetic Kerr imaging tools setups for in-operando inspection of magnetic devices to investigate charge-to-spin and charge-to-orbit interconversion efficiencies, spin conductance and scattering at interfaces, current-induced torques, magnetization switching characteristics, and the dynamics of chiral magnetic textures driven by current pulses.