Materials for Ultraefficient chiral SpinTronics - MUST

Project summary

Today, information and communication technologies (ICT) consume over 10% of global energy, with a rapidly increasing trend for the next decades. We urgently need mitigation plans to reduce this toll, and one effective approach consists in developing energy-efficient data storage and computing platforms. MUST aims at exploiting spin-based electronics as an innovative solution to tackle the above issue. In MUST, we will explore and optimize the chiral properties of ultrathin magnetic materials and develop a range of heterostructures and nanometer-scale devices that could lead to novel or improved spintronic concepts. The developed materials and technologies will offer better sustainability, higher energy efficiency, and new functionalities to some of the current ICT products, making a global societal and economic impact. Overall, our efforts will help ease the ever-increasing energy demand in ICT and help Europe maintain its steering wheel toward the 2050 Green Deal objectives.