Prof. Albert Fert, Nobel Laureate in Physics (2007, Giant Magnetoresistance) will be giving a talk on spintronics on October 25 at TU Dresden. The Professor of Physics at Université Paris-Sud and scientific director of the Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS-Thales (Orsay) will talk in the “Festsaal der Alten Mensa” Dülferstraße (Dülfersaal) from 5:30 pm. The event is part of a lecture series within the proposed Cluster of Excellence “Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfAED)”. The cfAED aims at finding innovative and promising paths for the future development of electronic information processing systems. This is especially relevant since the progress in conventional technology for electric information processing (CMOS) will soon be reaching its physical limits, thus slowing down the biggest promoter of progress in today‘s world.

Spintronics investigates the influence of the spin orientation of electrons on electronic charge transport and utilizes the resulting effects systematically. The most prominent of these effects is giant magnetoresistance in magnetic multi-layer systems, which sets the basis for novel read heads resulting in a massive increase in memory capacity of common hard discs. Beyond this, modern spintronics deals with a large variety of promising effects - not based on common electronics circuitry - that give rise to more efficient solutions for information processing technology.
The talk will be given in the English language and will introduce the basis of spintronics. Prof. Fert will especially point out topics in recent research such as spin transfer and applications for memory technology. Furthermore, the use of microwaves, graphene, carbon nanotubes, the spin-Hall-effect and approaches for neuromorphic engineering will be discussed.

Prof. Fert will be available for a discussion and for the press after his talk. The interested public is cordially invited to attend the talk and the subsequent discussion.

This event is supported by the newly established Collaborative Research Centre (“Sonderforschungsbereich”) 912: HAEC - Highly Adaptive Energy-Efficient Computing. The entrance is free.

Information for Journalists:
Prof. Dr. Gianaurelio Cuniberti
Institut für Werkstoffwissenschaft und Max-Bergmann-Zentrum für Biomaterialien
Fakultät Maschinenwesen
Tel.: +49 351 463-31409, +49 179 1479836
Fax: +49 351 463-31422

Magister/Eckold
18. Oktober 2011