Sinfonia

Highlights

SINFONIA at the Spintronics Factory meeting 2022

Alberto Brambilla, Marie-Blandine Martin and Pierre Seneor bringing SINFONIA's ideas at the Spintronics Factory meeting 2022 in Paris!

18/11/2022

SINFONIA supports the Italian Quantum Week

The Italian Quantum Weeks are a set of events promoted by Italian engineers, physicists, science communicators and educators for the first World Quantum Day (14 April 2022).
The aim is to raise awareness of the quantum world and the opportunities that the quantum revolution is bringing.

Download the flyer.

04/04/2022

Job offer at University of Milan

A two-year Post-Doctoral position is offered at the Physics Department of the University of Milan (Italy), in the field of first-principle investigation of hybrid organic/antiferromagnetic interfaces.
The position is offered in the context of the EU-funded FET project "SINFONIA" aiming to the development of perspective spintronics devices, where the coupling of magnetic perturbations and optical stimuli at hybrid interfaces are addressed at the experimental and theoretical level.

See here for the full announcement.

01/02/2022

3rd European Conference on Molecular Spintronics (ECMolS22)

ECMols22 conference will take place in Dortmund (Germany) from 05 to 08 April 2022.
ECMolS22 gathers the community working in the field of molecular spintronics,including organic spintronics, molecular electronics, molecular magnetism and molecular quantum technologies.
In addition to these traditional topics, ECMolS2022 is open to scientists investigating 2D materials, with special focus on proximity effects at the interface between two material layers.

For further information can be found at ESMols2022 webpage

20/12/2021

About

SINFONIA is an interdisciplinary research project that envisions a technology allowing to store and transport information on the nanometer length scale and at operational frequencies in the THz regime. Such a technology will be realized through an optical manipulation of hybrid molecular/antiferromagnetic interfaces, which will enable a selective activation of information emitters and detectors. Such a selectivity will be ensured by the local nature of the hybridized electronic states that develops at the interface between an antiferromagnet and a molecular system.

Objectives

The main objective of SINFONIA is to exploit the hybridized states created at the interface between an antiferromagnet and a molecular system to couple an external optical stimulus to the propagation of magnetic perturbations (namely spin waves) in the antiferromagnetic layer. This way, SINFONIA proposes a completely new approach to information technology, based on hybrid organic/ inorganic low-dimensional systems.

Structure

SINFONIA brings together interdisciplinary scientific and technology oriented partners in an early-stage research towards the development of a radically new technology. The work plan of the project is organized in 6 Work packages:

WP1 Management
WP2 Preparation and characterization of hybrid organic/antiferromagnetic interfaces
WP3 Optical coupling of hybrid organic/antiferromagnetic nanosystems
WP4 Propagation of Spin Waves through low-dimensional hybrid systems
WP5 Theoretical development of hybrid organic/antiferromagnetic interfaces
WP6 Communication, dissemination and exploitation activities

Impact

The SINFONIA ambition is to develop new technology for low power consumption (no electrical currents), high-frequency responses (ensured by antiferromagnetic materials), tunability (ensured by molecular materials), scalability and miniaturization, on account of the intrinsic low-dimensionality of our interface-based approach.