The European Research Council (ERC) granted a â¬1.9 million new project to Prof. Can Onur Avci, in the field of magnetic insulators for spintronics devices. Prof. Aci will move to ICMAB and be integrated at the ICMAB Research Line 3 (RL3) âOxides for new generation electronicsâ. The activities of this research center span from multiferroics, flexoelectric materials oxide photonics and spintronics to ferroelectric memory arrays and GHz-THz magnetoelectrics.
The awarded project is called MAGNEPIC, or âMagnetic Insulators: An Enabling Platform for Innovative Spintronic Conceptsâ. The project full goal is to study magnetic insulators to develop novel device concepts and explore emerging physical phenomena that could be useful for future spintronics research and applications.