Work led by Hitachi in collaboration with UCL and the Robinson Lab has led to the development of a new superconducting detector with a charge sensitivity of 1.3 µe/√Hz. Find out more here and see Physical Review Applied 10, 014018 (2018).
Work led by Hitachi in collaboration with UCL and the Robinson Lab has led to the development of a new superconducting detector with a charge sensitivity of 1.3 µe/√Hz. Find out more here and see Physical Review Applied 10, 014018 (2018).
U Cambridge Offers Evidence of Pure Spin Currents
Sep 11, 2018Some superconductors can also carry currents of ‘spin’
Apr 27, 2018We 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
Jan 10, 2018Group's work on superconducting graphene on an oxide high temperature superconductor noted in the Financial Times
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'
Aug 18, 2017Electron ‘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.
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
Jan 25, 2017Researchers have found a way to trigger the innate, but previously hidden, ability of graphene to act as a superconductor.
Wonderkoolstof grafeen blijkt ook supergeleider
Jan 25, 2017de volkskrant discusses group's work on p-wave triggered superconductivity in single layer graphene
The Oxford Handbook of Small Superconductors
Jan 23, 2017"The Oxford Handbook of Small Superconductors", Oxford University Press, is published (19 January)
Flash Physics: p-wave superconductivity in graphene
Jan 20, 2017Physics World highlights group's work on p-wave superconductivity in graphene
Cambridge Uni spins up green and beefy super-computer project
Apr 18, 2016Electron spin meets and marries superconductivity
Cambridge to research future computing tech that could “ignite a technology field”
Apr 15, 2016A 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
Oct 12, 2015Smaller, 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.
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