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NMP-2007-2.2-2 Nanostructured materials with tailored magnetic properties
Technical content/scope: Magneto-opto-electronics is an emerging field with radically new technologies that exploit the electron charge as well as the magnetism of its spin for the realisation of novel devices. Understanding magnetic phenomena in the nanoregime and their coupling to optical and electronic phenomena is still in its infancy, but presents a huge potential for the information society. Research should deliver solutions beyond the current state-of-the-art in technology areas such as spintronics, magnetic data storage/processing, photonics and sensors for medical applications. The nanostructured materials targeted include molecular nanomagnets, magnetic nanoparticles, complex geometries like core-shell structures, engineered highly polarized spin sources, systems where the manipulation of magnetization is carried out by electric fields, current, or light, magnetoresistive or magnetostrictive materials and diluted magnetic semiconductors.
Funding scheme: Small or medium-scale focused research projects.
Special features: Industrial participation is required.
Expected impacts: Relevance in technological fields like magnetic data storage and processing, scanners, spintronics, photonics, sensors for medical and other applications.