PARTNERS

JAGADEESH MOODERA
MIT

American physicist of Indian origin and is senior research scientist at MIT’s Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory. In 1994 he led an MIT research team in the discovery of a practical way to implement room temperature magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) using a magnetic stack based on CoFe–Al2O3–Co, demonstrating a tunnel magnetoresistance ratio (TMR) of 11.8%. Nowadays his work is focused in investigation of topological insulator devices and Majorana fermions. Our collaboration is focused in investigatigation of spin transport in topological devices and experimental skyrmions.
 

BERNARD DIENY
SPINTEC

Bernard is world-famous for the discovery of spin valves and throughout his career, he has contributed to major breakthroughs in spintronics, similarly at ease in theoretical physics and applied science. He has spent two long term assignments at IBM Research and University California San Diego. Bernard holds more than 30 patents and signed about 450 scientific publications. He received an outstanding achievement award from IBM in 1992 and was awarded from the French Society of Physics in 1999. Our collaboration is based in develop MRAM thermally assisted based on vortex configuration.

PAULO FREITAS
INL

He was a postdoctoral Research Fellow at the IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, USA (1986-87) and since 2000, he is the Director of INESC-MN. In 2007, he joined the Installation Commission of the International Iberian Nanotechnology Institute (INL) and was appointed Deputy Director General in 2009. Professor Freitas’ current research include GMR heads for ultra-high density recording, spin-dependent tunneling junctions, non-volatile memories, magnetic multilayers and thin films, micro magnetism, transport phenomena, GMR sensors, bioelectronics and biosensors. Our collaboration is focused on the development of low magnetic field sensors and nanomagnetic structures.

JORLANDIO F. FELIX
UnB

He has performed part of his PhD at University of Nottinghan under supervision of Mohamed Henini with main research focuses on the physics and technology of Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) growth for III-V electronic and optoelectronic devices, currently is head of Grupo de Nanoestruturas Semicondutoras e Magnéticas in the University of Brasília. Our colaboration is based on Ferromagnetic resonance and SQUID measurements of different devices.

AFRANIO R. PEREIRA
UFV

He was a postdoctoral Research Fellow University of Bologna and is head of Grupo de Teoria de Campos e Simulações Computacionais em Física da Matéria Condensada in the Federal University of Viçosa. His contributions in the field of Artificial Spin Ice systems and his group are recognized worldwide.

ANDRÉ A. PASA
UFSC

He made part of his PhD in Germany and was a postdoctoral Research Fellow at CSIC Spain. He is head of Laboratório de Filmes Finos e Superfícies (LFFS-UFSC) at Federal University of Santa Catarina, world-renowned researcher in electrodeposition and have important contributions in microelectronics, sensors and biosensors.