OptoSpintronics












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            * OptoSpintronics
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            Spintronics is a new dynamic branch of electronics that uses magnetic moment – spin – of c

            for data storage and processing. OptoSpintronics is a branch of spintronics where light is
            investigation and/or control of spin.


            Laboratory of OptoSpintronics [ URL "https://physics.mff.cuni.cz/kchfo/ooe/los/los_en.htm"
            is headed by Petr Němec, is a joint laboratory of Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Char
            and Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences CR that was established in 2011. Starting fr

            research performed in LOS is partially supported by European research grant ASPIN [ URL "h
            mainz.de/"] awarded within the Future and Emerging Technologies program that is part of th

            pillar of the Framework Programme Horizon 2020. Since 2019, the five year EXPRO project “T
            neuromorphic memories based on antiferromagnets’’ (TERANEU) is financed by Grant Agency of
            The aim of the TERANEU project is to scientifically underpin future development of spintro

            memories with speeds extended from the gigahertz to the terahertz range and the operation 
            the digital to the neuromorphic mode. For optical research of antiferromagnets members of 
            several prices including Czech Head Price [ URL "http://www.ceskahlava.cz/cz/ceska-hlava/"

            Werner von Siemens Prize [ URL "https://new.siemens.com/cz/cs/spolecnost/o-nas/cena-siemen





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            * Selected outputs
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            • L. Nádvorník, P. Němec, T. Janda, K. Olejník, V. Novák, V. Skoromets, H. Němec, P. Kužel

              T. Jungwirth, and J. Wunderlich:
              Long-range and high-speed electronic spin-transport at a GaAs/AlGaAs semiconductor inter
              "https://www.nature.com/articles/srep22901"] Scientific Reports 6, 22901 (2016).

            • V. Saidl, P. Němec, P. Wadley, V. Hills, R.P. Campion, V. Novák, K.W. Edmonds, F. Macche
              S. Dhesi, B.L. Gallagher, F. Trojánek, J. Kuneš, J. Železný, P. Malý, and T. Jungwirth: 
              determination of the Néel vector in a CuMnAs thin-film antiferromagnet. [ URL "https://w

              articles/nphoton.2016.255"] Nature Photonics 11, 91-96 (2017).
            • T. Janda, P. E. Roy, R. M. Otxoa, Z. Šobáň, A. Ramsay, A. C. Irvine, F. Trojánek, M. Sur
              Campion, B. L. Gallagher, P. Němec, T. Jungwirth, and J. Wunderlich:

              Inertial displacement of a domain wall excited by ultra-short circularly polarized laser
              "https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15226"] . Nature Communications 8, 15226 (2017).
            • P. Němec, M. Fiebig, T. Kampfrath, and A. V. Kimel: Antiferromagnetic opto-spintronics. 

              www.nature.com/articles/s41567-018-0051-x"] Nature Physics 14, 229 - 241 (2018).