Some superconductors can also carry currents of ‘spin’
We have shown that certain superconductors – materials that carry electrical current with zero resistance at very low temperatures – can also carry currents of ‘spin’. The successful combination of superconductivity and spin could lead to a revolution in high-performance computing, by dramatically reducing energy consumption.
Superconductivity offers tantalising changes from electricity to transport
Group's work on superconducting graphene on an oxide high temperature superconductor noted in the Financial Times
The Electron Manifesto
Focused article - Electron Manifesto - on group's work on superconducting spintronics in Research Horizons, the University of Cambridge’s research magazine.
The Electron Manifesto: transforming high performance computing with 'spintronics'
Electron ‘spin’ could hold the key to managing the world’s growing data demands without consuming huge amounts of energy. Now, researchers have shown that energy-efficient superconductors can power devices designed to achieve this. What once seemed an impossible marriage of superconductivity and spin may be about to transform high performance computing.
EPSRC-JSPS Core-to-Core
Awarded 5-year EPSRC-JSPS Core-to-Core Grant on "International network to explore novel superconductivity at advanced oxide superconductor/magnet interfaces and in nanodevices"
Graphene’s sleeping superconductivity awakens
Researchers have found a way to trigger the innate, but previously hidden, ability of graphene to act as a superconductor.
Wonderkoolstof grafeen blijkt ook supergeleider
de volkskrant discusses group's work on p-wave triggered superconductivity in single layer graphene
The Oxford Handbook of Small Superconductors
"The Oxford Handbook of Small Superconductors", Oxford University Press, is published (19 January)
Flash Physics: p-wave superconductivity in graphene
Physics World highlights group's work on p-wave superconductivity in graphene
Cambridge Uni spins up green and beefy super-computer project
Electron spin meets and marries superconductivity
Cambridge to research future computing tech that could “ignite a technology field”
A Cambridge-led project aiming to develop a new architecture for future computing based on superconducting spintronics - technology designed to increase the energy-efficiency of high-performance computers and data storage - has been announced.
Spintronics: making computers faster
Smaller, faster, cheaper - that was the trend in computing for the past 50 years. As microprocessor technology is hitting the limits of what’s physically possible, some researchers are exploring whether a new technology, ‘spintronics’, may be the way forward.
Nature North & West Europe
Strong spending and recruitment keep countries in this region near the top of the world's output in the Index, and scientists from universities collaborate more with their neighbours.
A New Spin on Computing
They have found a way to make a superconducting current spin in order to potentially revolutionize computing.
Superconducting spintronics pave way for next-generation computing
A breakthrough for the field of Spintronics, a new type of technology which it is widely believed could be the basis of a future revolution in computing, has been announced by scientists in Cambridge.
